Aage Storstein was a Norwegian artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

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Aage Storstein was born in Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

 in the county of Rogaland

Rogaland

is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...

, Norway. Aage Storstein studied in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 at Academie Ranson

Académie Ranson

The Académie Ranson was founded in Paris by the French painter Paul Ranson , who himself studied at the Académie Julian, in 1908.- History :...

, Académie de la Grande Chaumière

Académie de la Grande Chaumière

The Académie de la Grande Chaumière is an art school in the VIe arrondissement of Paris, France. The school was founded in 1902 by the Swiss Martha Stettler , who refused to teach the strict academic rules of painting of the École des Beaux-Arts. It opened the way to the "Art Indépendant"...

, and Academie Colarossi

Académie Colarossi

The Académie Colarossi is an art school founded by the Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi. First located on the Île de la Cité, it moved in the 1870s to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the VIe arrondissement of Paris, France....

 during 1920 and 1921, and in 1926 under Henrik Sørensen

Henrik Sørensen

-Personal life:Sørensen was born in Fryksände in Sweden as a son of Severin Sørensen and Helene Høibraaten. He was married to Gudrun Klewe, and is father of physicist Sven Oluf Sørensen.-Painting career:...

 and Per Krohg

Per Krohg

Per Lasson Krohg was a Norwegian artist. Per Krohg is most frequently associated with the mural he created for the United Nations Security Council Chamber, located in the United Nations building in New York City.-Biography:...

. He debuted at the Autumn Exhibition

Høstutstillingen

Høstutstillingen or Statens kunstutstilling is an annual art exhibition in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition is Norway's largest marking of contemporary art and takes place each autumn. It is arranged by Norske Billedkunstnere . The exhibition is set up on the basis of free submission...

  (Høstutstillingen) where his art was featured 12 times between 1924 and 1983. His exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937. Starting in 1946, Storstein taught art at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts

Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts

The Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts is a Norwegian university offering studies in the areas of specialization painting, photography / video / film, digital art, sound art, sculpture, installation, performance art, and art theory.-History:...

 with his students including Rolf Aamot

Rolf Aamot

Rolf Aamot is a Norwegian painter, film director, photographer and tonal-imagePublished by The Bergen Museum of Art 1998: Electromagnetic energy shapes the colour/photone and curvilineartone span of tonal image art. The laserpower radiance of atoms...

, Halvdan Ljøsne

Halvdan Ljøsne

Halvdan Ljøsne was a Norwegian painter.He was born in Vågå. He took his education at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1949 to 1950, the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1950 to 1953 and the Academie Ranson from 1953 to 1954...

 and Gunnar S. Gundersen

Gunnar S. Gundersen

Gunnar S. Gundersen or Gunnar S. was a Norwegian modernist painter. -Biography:Gunnar S. Gundersen was born in Førde, in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Gundersen was among the young artists who attended the National Academy of Fine Art in Oslo in the years after Norway was liberated from...

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Storstein won the 1938 competition for the decoration of the West Gallery in the Oslo City Hall

Oslo City Hall

Oslo City Hall houses the city council, city administration, and art studios and galleries. The construction started in 1931, but was paused by the outbreak of World War II, before the official inauguration in 1950. Its characteristic architecture, artworks and the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, held...

 which he completed for the official inauguration in 1950. He is represented in the Nasjonalgalleriet in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Moderna Museet

Moderna Museet

Moderna museet, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, that was first opened in 1958. Its first manager was Pontus Hultén...

 in Sweden, Rogaland Kunstmuseum in Stavanger, Bergen Billedgalleri and many other major art galleries.

External links

• About Aage Storstein's frescos at Oslo Town Hall

Literature

• Ødegaard, Åse (1992) Aage Storstein. En billedbygger i norsk kunst (Oslo: BONYTT AS) ISBN 82-7039-030-5
• Ødegaard, Åse (2000) Et kunstverk blir til. Aage Storsteins fresker i Oslo Rådhus (Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag) ISBN 82-519-1625-9