Andre von Morisse
Norwegian-American, b. 1966
ANDRE VON MORISSE
NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN, B. 1966, OSLO NORWAY
Labeled “The Painter of Pop Surrealism” by Widewalls Magazine in 2013, Andre Von Morisse (b.1966, Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian-American conceptual painter.
Born in Norway in an artistic family and educated in the U.S., von Morisse turns his acute insight rooted in the European tradition of intellectual irony to examination of American visual and popular culture. His imagery combines cartoon aesthetics with surrealism and pop-art, employing icons of mass culture and history of art for a playful exploration of the consumerist era. A conceptual painter with a Natural History background, his interests lie in exploring aspects of human psychology and how we interact with the world. His earlier body of work focused on the beauty of the Natural world celebrating his passion for the under water realms (see Works from the 1990s). Presently, his work focuses on the psychological interpretations of the landscape and our place in it. With his work End of a New Dawn, reviewed by Jonathan Goodman in Art in America (Oct. 2005, p. 180), Von Morisse was the Winner of the “Best New Contemporary Artist Award 2005” at the Kunstnerenes Hus Museum in Oslo, Norway.
Andre von Morisse in his studio in NYC
RECENT WORKS
ANDRE VON MORISSE, Portrait of Albert 1er, Prince de Monaco, 2024, oil on canvas, 24 x 22 inches. (with Special Permission from Les Archives du Palais de Monaco).
This portrait of Prince Albert 1er of Monaco is an homage to the Prince of Monaco who came to Cody coming in September 1913 and met with Buffalo Bill to participate in the famous expedition called “Camp Monaco” (on view at The Buffalo Bill Center of the West).
Andre von Morisse is a conceptual painter, interested in exploring aspects of human psychology and how we interact with the world. His works were featured in many group shows in galleries and museums in the US: Kunstnerenes Hus Oslo, Norway; The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Museum of Southwest Texas, Midland, TX ; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX. In 2005, Von Morisse was the recipient of the Best New Contemporary Artists Award 2005, at the Kunstnerenes Hus Museum, Oslo, Norway. Von Morisse work is held in prominent museum and private collections in the United States.
ANDRE VON MORISSE, Childhood 2 (Forest) (Memory Paintings), 2024, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in. (91.44 x 121.92 cm), Signed on the reverse.
Remembering the forest of his childhood in Norway, Von Morisse extended his longing for Nature in his “Forest” series with Autumnal colors. There, the freedom of the children roaming into the wilderness is felt throughout the picture. A memory from the past, rendered in the tradition of his predecessor and fellow Norwegian Edvard Munch, the Memory Paintings series are works von Morisse started in 2010. The artist evoques his state of mind, reminiscent of his childhood in Norway, and remembers nostalgically the “happy days” of freedom and cheerfulness running in the forest near Finskögen.
Andre von Morisse is a conceptual painter, interested in exploring aspects of human psychology and how we interact with the world. His works were featured in many group shows in galleries and museums in the US: Kunstnerenes Hus Oslo, Norway; The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; Museum of Southwest Texas, Midland, TX ; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX. In 2005, Von Morisse was the recipient of the Best New Contemporary Artists Award 2005, at the Kunstnerenes Hus Museum, Oslo, Norway. Von Morisse work is held in prominent museum and private collections in the United States.
