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Line 29: ==Biography== ===Early life=== Odd Nerdrum was born in [[Helsingborg]], [[Sweden]] in 1944. His parents, [[Resistance movement|Resistance]] fighters, had been sent to Sweden from German-occupied Norway to direct guerrilla activities from outside the country. A year later, at the end of the war, Odd and his parents moved back to Norway. Lillemor, his mother, soon after, went to New York to study at the [[Fashion Institute of Technology]]. The feeling of being unwanted and abandoned Nerdrum felt at this time would stay with him until he was in his late forties, and he often felt emotionally distanced. In 1950, Nerdrum's parents divorced, leaving Nerdrum's mother, Lillemor, to raise two small children, Odd, and his younger brother.<ref name="Vine 26-42">{{cite book |last=Vine |first=Richard |title=Odd Nerdrum: Paintings, Sketches and Drawings. |year=2001 |publisher=Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S, Gyldendal Fakta |location=Oslo}} pp. 26-42</ref> Nerdrum's father, Johan Nerdrum, later remarried. Although he was supportive of Odd, he kept an emotional distance between himself and his son. At his death, Odd was asked not to attend the funeral. He found out three years later that Johan was not his biological father. Odd, was in fact, the result of a liaison between [[David Sandved]] and Lillemor. Lillemor and Sandved had had a relationship prior to Lillemor's marriage, and this was resumed during the war in a period when Johan was absent. Richard Vine, art critic, describes this episode in Nerdrum's life as one which created "a conflicted preoccupation with origins and personal identity", that "came natural to Nerdrum" and was represented in his pictures. He would go on to make paintings about these experiences.<ref name="Vine 26-42"/> | |||