also found inspiration in literature, including the works of Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France and Goethe. In 1905 Lange moved to Dachau and was based there until 1914, with a stay in Rome in 1909 and some trips back to Norway. Stavanger Art Museum has a complete collection of Lange's colour etchings, comprising: Salammbô (1905) Herodias (1905) Women Impailed on Butterflies (1905) The Mermaid (1905) The Queen of Sheba (1906) Urvasi (1906) The Cry / Revolution (1908) The Martyr (1911) Tang / Seaweed (1912) The First World War and after Lange moved to Copenhagen in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, also spending time in Norway. Besides stops in Stavanger, he travelled to Ulvik, Hardanger and Sogn to paint mainly landscapes of the western fjords. During this period Lange also painted monumental tempera paintings, and a six meter long triptych called The 11,000 Virgins. Lange contracted tuberculosis and stayed in Copenhagen until the early 1920s. Olaf Lange recovered from the illness after a stay in Baden-Baden, in the fresh air of the Black Forest. He then moved back to Munich and started writing articles for newspapers in Norway and Sweden, besides painting. In his articles in the Stavanger Aftenblad newspaper he wrote about the tense situation building up in Munich during the leading up to the Second World War. In 1936 Lange stayed in Brixen in northern Italy. In 1943 he was expelled from Germany and travelled to Norway where he spent the rest of his life. During the war he lived in Tau, moving back to his hometown Stavanger when the war ended in 1945. Around 1950 Lange lived for some time in Stord. Olaf Lange left a great deal of his work to Stavanger Faste Galleri, now Stavanger Art Museum and to the British Museum Olaf Lange died in Stavanger in 1965. Collections Lange's art is represented in the collections of several museums, including in Rome, Venice, Munich, Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Paris, Brighton, Chicago and San Francisco. In Norway his work is in the collections of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, and the art museums of Bergen and Stavanger. References Further reading 1875 births 1965 deaths People from Stavanger People from Stord Art Nouveau painters Art Nouveau illustrators 19th-century Norwegian painters 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters Norwegian illustrators Académie Julian alumni Symbolist painters 19th-century Norwegian male artists 20th-century Norwegian male