Background
Kalle Løchen was born in Fåberg (now Lillehammer), in Oppland, Norway, the son of candidate.jur.
Kalle Løchen was born in Fåberg (now Lillehammer), in Oppland, Norway, the son of candidate.jur.
He apprenticed with Wilhelm von Hanno and Knud Bergslien. He also studied with Julius Middelthun at The Royal Drawing School.
He was a brother of Arne Løchen, Einar Løchen and Hjalmar Løken. Løchen took middle school examination in 1881. During 1883-1884, he was trained by Christian Krohg and Frits Thaulow at an open air academy in Modum.
In 1889, he was a pupil of Léon Bonnat in Paris.
Kalle Løchen debuted at the Autumn Exhibition in 1883. As an actor, he performed Hamlet at the National Theatre and also played Oswald in the Norwegian premiere of Ghosts.
Tragically, he committed suicide in the following year at 28 years of age. He is represented in the National of Norway with the paintings Fra Kongshavn bad from 1882, Malerskolens atelier på Modum from 1883, and a portrait of Cecilie Thoresen Krog from 1885.