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About the artist
Eva Bull Holte was born on 15 January 1922 and died on 15 February 1993. She is buried in Åmotsdal. She and her husband purchased the Sneie crofter's farm in Åmotsdal in the 1950s. They then started their col lection of old log buildings to accompany those already on the farm.

Eva Bull Holte gained inspiration from many of the landscapes of Åmotsdal, but also from other parts of West Telemark. In her later years however, sites from Åmotsdal are more frequent in her works. Eva Bull Holte was educated at Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole in Oslo (1940-44), Statens Kunstakademi (1946-49) and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris (1948-52). Among her teachers were Per Krohg and Jean Heiberg. Cézanne in particular was one of the painters who inspired Eva Bull Hol te. The Norwegian National G allery, Berge n Billedgalleri, Riksgalleriet, Norges B ank , The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Arts Council of Norway, The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D. C. and Collection Leon Hess in New York have all purchased Eva Bull Holte's works of art.

About the museum:
On Saturday 12 June 1999, the art museum at Sneie in Åmotsdal was officially opened by the county governor of Telemark. The former CEO of Hydro, Johan B. Holte, met the costs of the museum. Seljord municipality runs the museum in cooperation with the board of directors for the memorial fund set up for Eva Bull Holte. In 2003, the museum was extended with a separate exhibition room for guest artists.