Lars Osa

Lars Osa was a Norwegian artist. He also worked with church decoration and restoration and was a noted fiddle player.

Lars Andersen was born in the village of Ulvik in Ulvik municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. When Lars Osa was five years old, the family moved from the village of Ulvik into the village of Osa, located aboutkilometres away, at the end of the Osafjorden, an arm of the Hardangerfjord. He grew up in an environment characterized by a living folk tradition. He visited Knud Bergslien in Eidfjord and received his first art lessons from him. That same year he went to Christiania and was a pupil at Tegneskolen. In 1882 he was admitted as a student at the Art Academy in Copenhagen. He studied there until 1885, and continued as a student under the Danish painters Laurits Tuxen and Peder Severin Kryer until 1886. He used a travel scholarship for trips to Paris during the autumn and winter of 1897 and 1898.

Source: Wikipedia