Ekeberg with a fishing vessel. Ekeberg Ekeberg is a neighborhood in the city of Oslo, Norway. The Norway Cup soccer tournament takes place at Ekebergsletta every summer. "Sletta" means "the plain". The painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch is painted from Utsikten ("the view"), a part of Ekeberg. In the area are a number of old Iron Age grave mounds and Bronze Age ritual sites. This establish the area of Ekeberg as one of the oldest inhabited places around Oslo. During the Middle Ages, the farm of Ekeberg belonged to Hovedøya Abbey. The area was later taken by the crown. From
Edvard Diriks Edvard Diriks Karl Edvard Diriks (9 January 1855 – 17 March 1930) was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Christiania (now Oslo, Norway) to Christian Ludvig Diriks and Benedicte Henriette Munch. He was a grandson of government minister Christian Adolph Diriks and a nephew of Carl Frederik Diriks. He began to study to become an architect at Karlsruhe, Germany from 1874 to 1875 and later in Berlin. He was married to painter and sculptor Anna Diriks (1870-1932). They resided in France between 1899 and 1921. He is known for his naturalist outdoor paintings of clouds, rain squalls, snow flurry,