with Julius Middelthun (1873-75, Christiania/Oslo); Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich (1876-79); with Léon Bonnat (1881-83, Paris)
1878 – meets editor and collector Peter Christien Asbjørnsen in Munich; contributes illustrations to Asbjørnsen’s collection of Norwegian fairy tales (1879)
1883 – returns to Norway; begins painting ethnographic themes
1890s – artistic editor/contributor to illustrated edition of Snorre Sturlasons’s sagas of the Norse kings (1896-99)
1917 – begins producing lithographs; publishes Art, Struggle, Culture [Kunst, kamp, kultur]
Munich (1876-81); Paris (1881-83, late 1880s; 1908); Berlin (1905)
explorer Fridtjof Nansen
From Telemark, 1883 (The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo)
Landscape with Haymaker, 1893 (The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo)
Varnedoe, Kirk. Northern Light: Nordic Art at the Turn of the Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988
Werenskiøld, Merit. “Erik Werenskiøld in Munich 1875-1881,” Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, vol. 68, no. 2 (1999): 81-98