Ida Lorentzen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ida Lorentzen

Norwegian artist

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1951

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: painter

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ida Margrethe Lorentzen (born December 11, 1951 in New York City ) is an American born, Norwegian artist known for her paintings of interiors of a melancholic nature. Ida Lorentzen was raised and educated in New England and Oslo.
She studied at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts (1970–1974) and the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo (1974–1979).
She was awarded the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995 for her Room With a View, (1993) .
She married Erik Nilsen-Moe in 1974, Ida Lorentzen has painted several portrait commissions, Queen Sonja of Norway (1994) and the Coronation Ceremony in the Nidaros Cathedral in 1991.
Master dissertations are on file at Oslo University, Bergen University and Tromsø University.