Visual artists
- Thomas Fearnley
Thomas Fearnley was a Norwegian painter.-Background:Thomas Fearnley was born in Fredrikshald , in Østfold county, Norway. Fearnley's father's family came originally from Yorkshire, in England. His grandfather was a merchant who came to Fredrikshald, Norway in 1753...
(1802–1842), painterPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
- Peder Balke
Peder Balke was a Norwegian painter. He was known for portraying the nature of Norway in a positive manner and influenced a dramatic and romantic view of Norwegian landscape.-Biography:...
(1804–87), painter
- Hans Hansen
Hans Hansen, called Hans í Mikladali from Mikladalur, Faroe Islands was a Faroese painter. Four of his paintings were featured on a series of Faroese stamps issued in September 1998:- External links :...
(1820-1858), sculptor
- Johan Fredrik Eckersberg
Johan Fredrik Eckersberg was a Norwegian painter most noted for his landscapes. Eckersberg was a prominent figure in the transition from Romanticism to Realism in 18th century Norwegian art, both as an artistic painter and a teacher at his own art school in Oslo.-Background:Johan Fredrik...
(1822–1870), painter
- Hans Fredrik Gude (1825-1903), painter
- Lars Hertervig
Lars Hertervig was a Norwegian painter. His semi-fantastical work with motives from the coastal landscape in the traditional district of Ryfylke is regarded as one of the peaks of Norwegian painting.-Background:...
(1830–1902), painter
- Jacob Wilhelm Nordan 1824–1892, architect
- Gerhard Munthe
Gerhard Peter Frantz Munthe was a Norwegian painter and illustrator.-Background:Munthe was born in Elverum to physician Christopher Pavels Munthe and his wife Christine Margrethe Pavels Aabel . He was a brother of historian Hartvig Andreas Munthe, writer Margrethe Munthe and military officer...
(1849–1929), painter and draftsmanDrawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
- Eilif Peterssen
Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter.-Background:Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was born in Christiania, now Oslo, Norway. He grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner.He attended the Johan Fredrik Eckersberg School of Painting in Oslo in 1869...
(1852-), painter and draftsman
- Christian Krohg
Christian Krohg , was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist.-Life and career:...
(1852–1925), painter and writerA writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
- Erik Werenskiold
Erik Theodor Werenskiold was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He is especially known for his drawings for the...
(1855–1938), painter and draftsman
- Gustav Wentzel
Gustav Wentzel was a Norwegian painter. He was best known for interiors and domestic and rural scenes. His artistic style was associated with Naturalism and noted for accurate observations and attention to detail....
(1859–1927), painter
- Lars Jonson Haukaness
Lars Jonson Haukaness was a Norwegian born American-Canadian impressionist painter and art instructor who was particularly noted for his landscapes.-Background:...
(1863–1929), painter
- Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.- Childhood :Edvard Munch...
(1863–1944), painter and graphic artist
- Emil Biorn
Emil Biorn was an Norwegian-born, American sculptor, painter and composer.-Background:Emil Bjørn was born in Christiania, Norway. He was trained at both the Royal Norwegian School of Drawing and at Lindeman's School of Music in Oslo...
(1864–1935), Norwegian-American sculptor and painter
- Thorolf Holmboe
Thorolf Holmboe was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and designer.He was born in Vefsn, in Nordland county, Norway as the oldest son of Othar Ervigius Holmboe and his wife Sofie Birgitte Andrea Hall. He had one brother, Othar, who also became a painter...
(1866-1935), painter, illustratorAn Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
and designerA designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
- Yngvar Sonnichsen
Yngvar Sonnichsen was a Norwegian born, American artist and painter known especially for his portraits, landscapes and murals.-Background:...
(1873-1938), Norwegian AmericanNorwegian Americans are Americans of Norwegian descent. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the later half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century. There are more than 4.5 million Norwegian Americans according to the most recent U.S. census, and...
artist
- Ludvig Karsten
Ludvig Karsten was a Norwegian painter. He was a neo-impressionist influenced by Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse and the contemporary French painting. He first participated at the Autumn exhibition in Kristiania in 1901, and had his first separate exhibition in 1904...
(1876–1926), painter
- Halfdan Egedius
Halfdan Egedius was a Norwegian painter and illustrator.-Biography:Halfdan Johnsen Egedius was born in Drammen in Buskerud county and grew up in Christiania. His interest in painting and illustration began at the age of 5 and he showed exceptional artistic abilities early...
(1877–1899), painter
- Wilhelm Rasmussen
Wilhelm Rasmussen was a Norwegian sculptor.Wilhelm Robert Rasmussen was born in Skien in Telemark county, Norway. He studied under Norwegian sculptors Brynjulf Bergslien and Lars Utne , and later trained at the Drawing Academy in Oslo from 1895 to 1900, then a short time in Paris in 1902 and in...
(1879-1965), sculptor
- 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:...
(1882-1962), painter
- Axel Revold
Axel Revold was a Norwegian painter, illustrator, and art professor at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts for twenty years. He was highly decorated for his merits.-Personal life:...
(1887-1962), painter
- Anne Grimdalen
Anne Grimdalen was a Norwegian sculptor. She was born on the mountain farm Grimdalen in Skafså, Telemark, and later also lived and worked in the so-called Kunstnerdalen in Asker. She worked mainly with granite, and also bronze...
(1899-1961), sculptor
- Erling Enger
Erling Enger was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Fåberg. Among his paintings at the National Gallery of Norway are Vekstring svinger lua from 1940, Gårdsgutten from 1943, and Familien from 1948. He has been portrayed with busts by Dyre Vaa and by Ragnhild Butenschøn.-References:...
(1899–1990), painter
- Dyre Vaa
Dyre Vaa was a Norwegian sculptor and painter.-Background:He was born in Kviteseid, Telemark, and later lived and worked in Rauland. Vaa grew up the youngest of five siblings in a wealthy home. His father was one of the largest forest owners in Telemark...
(1903-1980), sculptor
- Olav Halse (1903–1981), painter
- Chrix Dahl (1906–1994), graphic artist and draftsman
- Kai Fjell
Kai Breder Fjell was a Norwegian painter, printmaker and scenographer.- Biography :Fjell was born on a farm in the village Skoger near Drammen, Norway. His father was the farmer and painter Conrad Bendiks Fjeld....
(1907–1989), painter, graphic artist and scenographerA scenographer develops the appearance of a stage design, a TV or movie set, a gaming environment, a trade fair exhibition design or a museum experience exhibition design. The term originated in theater...
- Kaare Espolin Johnson (1907-1994), visual artist and illustrator
- Ferdinand Finne
Ferdinand Finne was a Norwegian painter, theatre worker and writer. He was costume designer at Nationaltheatret from 1935 to 1938. He is represented in the National Gallery of Norway with several art works. He wrote on art in various newspapers and magazines, and published a number of books. He...
(1910–1999), graphic artist and writer
- Borghild Rud
Borghild Rud was a Norwegian illustrator. She was a sister of Nils Johan Rud. She worked for the magazine Arbeidermagasinet from 1929 to 1970. She illustrated fairytales, books by Garborg and Hamsun, and around 800 texts by Prøysen, including his Mrs. Pepperpot stories.-References:...
(1910–1999), draftsman
- Olav Mosebekk, (1910–2001), draftsmans and painter
- Bendik Riis
Bendik Riis was a Norwegian artist whose works are on display at National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.He graduated from Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry....
(1911–1988), draftsman and painter
- Gunvor Advocaat (1912–1997), maler
- Guy Krohg (1917–1998), painter
- Ørnulf Ranheimsæter (1919-), draftsman and graphic artist
- Victor Sparre
Victor Sparre was a Norwegian painter, glass designer and non-fiction writer.-Personal life:...
(1919-), painter and glass designer
- Ludvig Eikaas
Ludvig Eikaas was a Norwegian painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Eikaas was among the first artists in Norway to work in a purely non-figurative idiom.-Biography:...
(1920-), painter and graphic artist
- Carl Nesjar (1920-), visual artist
- Omar Andréen
Omar Andréen was a Norwegian illustrator.He took his education at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1943 to 1945. He mainly illustrated books, as well as A-Magasinet for twenty years...
(1922–), draftsmans and graphic artist
- Kåre Tveter (1922-), painter
- Fritz Røed
Fritz Røed was a Norwegian sculptor. He is most associated with his work, Sverd i fjell, the commemorative monument which symbolizes the unification of the nation of Norway. -Biography:...
(1928-2002), sculptor
- Haakon Bleken
Håkon Ingvald Bleken is a Norwegian painter and graphic artist.- Education and work as an artist :Bleken started his art education at Trondheim art school, where he studied under Karsten Keiseraas and Oddvar Alstad from 1948 to 1949. He then studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts...
(1929–), painter
- Bjørg Lødøen
Bjørg Lødøen was a Norwegian painter, graphic artist, and composer.When Lødøen's family returned to Oslo in 1945, by way of her father she came to know the painter Xan Krohn. Krohn had been taking part in the Russian avant-garde movement from about 1910 until he returned to Norway some time after...
(1931-2009), painter, visual artist
- Iver Jåks
Iver Jåks was a Sami Norwegian artist, born in Karasjok. He often used elements of sami culture and mythology in his artistic works. He is represented at the National Gallery of Norway, at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, and other museums. He was decorated Knight, First Order of the Royal Norwegian Order...
(1932–), samiThe Sami people, also spelled Sámi, or Saami, are the arctic indigenous people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sámi are Europe’s northernmost...
artist
- Kjartan Slettemark
Kjartan Slettemark was a Norwegian-Swedish artist. Kjartan is a Norwegian corruption of the Gaelic name Muircheartach . His surname consists of the Norwegian words slette and mark...
(1932–), visual artist
- Per Ung
Per Ung is a Norwegian sculptor. His first large public commission was the bronze statue of actress Johanne Dybwad, located on Johanne Dybwads plass outside the National Theatre in Oslo. His monument of figure skater Sonja Henie is located at Frogner stadion. His statue of Fridtjof Nansen is...
(1933-), sculptor and graphic artist
- 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...
(1934-), painter, visual artist, film directorA film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
- Dagny Hald
Dagny Hald was a Norwegian ceramist and illustrator. She was born in Bærum, the daughter of Axel Revold. She is represented with works at the National Gallery of Norway, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and other galleries...
(1936-2001), ceramist sculptor
- Hans Normann Dahl
Hans Normann Dahl is a Norwegian illustrator, painter and sculptor.He delivered illustrations the newspaper Dagbladet from 1967 to 1988, and has illustrated a number of books. He is represented at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, at Bergen Museum and at the National Gallery in...
, (1937–), painter, draftsman, graphic artist
- Guttorm Guttormsgaard (1938–), graphic artist
- Jan Baker (1939-), visual artist
- Bjørn Ransve (1944-), painter
- Tore Hansen, painter and graphic artist
- Åke Berg (1946-), painter and graphic artist
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Designers, illustrators, architects, and others
- Christian H. Grosch (1801-1865), architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
- Olaf Gulbransson
Olaf Leonhard Gulbransson was a Norwegian artist, painter and designer. He is probably best known for his caricatures and illustrations.-Biography:...
(1873–1958), draftsman and illustrator
- Arthur David-Andersen (1875-1970), goldsmith
A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Since ancient times the techniques of a goldsmith have evolved very little in order to produce items of jewelry of quality standards. In modern times actual goldsmiths are rare...
- Einar Oscar Schou
Einar Oscar Schou was a Norwegian architect. He is most noted for his design of Den Nationale Scene in Bergen, Norway.-Background:...
(1877-1966), architect
- Arnstein Arneberg
Arnstein Rynning Arneberg was a Norwegian architect. He was active as an architect for 50 years and is often considered the leading architect in Norway of his time. -Background:...
(1882–1961), architect
- Andreas Bjercke (1883–1967), architect
- Gerhard Fischer
Gerhard Fisher contributed to the development and popularity of the hand held metal detector.-Biography:Gerhard Fisher immigrated to the United States from Germany after studying electronics at the University of Dresden. While working as a Research Engineer in Los Angeles, California his work with...
(1890-1977), architect og archeologist
- Hallvard Trætteberg
Hallvard Trætteberg was the leading Norwegian heraldic artist and the expert adviser on heraldry to the Government of Norway and the Norwegian Royal Family for much of the 20th century. From about 1930 he played a central role in the renewal of public heraldry in Norway with an emphasis on...
(1898-1987), heraldry
- Sigrun Berg (1901-1982), weaver
Weaving is a method of fabric production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. The other methods are knitting, lace making and felting. The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft or filling...
and textile designer
- Knut Knutsen (1903-1969), architect
- Thorbjørn Egner
Thorbjørn Egner was a Norwegian playwright, songwriter and illustrator known for his books, plays and musicals for children.-Career:...
(1912-1990), writer, songIn music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
writer og draftsman
- Fredrik Henrik Stabel (1914–2001), draftsman, newspaper illustrator, writer
- Ulf Aas
Ulf Aas is a Norwegian illustrator. He worked for the newspaper Aftenposten from 1948 . He has contributed with illustrations to more than 200 books. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1999.-References:...
(1918–), illustrator
- Salo Grenning
Salo Grenning, pen name Pedro was a Norwegian illustrator.He was born as Salo Goldfarb in Bergen as a son of businessman Leopold Goldfarb and Sonja Epstein . His first newspaper drawing was published in 1933 in Bergens Arbeiderblad...
(Pedro) (1918–1986), draftsman, newspaper illustrator
- Kjell Aukrust
Kjell Aukrust was a Norwegian author, poet and artist. He was the nephew of Olav Aukrust. He is most famous for his memoirs of his childhood in Alvdal in the books Simen, Bonden and Bror Min, and his creation of the fictional Norwegian village of Flåklypa and its cast of idiosyncratic characters...
(1920–2002), writer and illustrator
- Odd Børretzen
Odd Lunde Børretzen is a Norwegian author, illustrator, translator, and vocalist.- Biography :He was born in Fister in the Hjelmeland municipality as the son of a preacher...
(1926–), writer
- Arild Nyquist
Arild Nyquist was a Norwegian novelist, lyricist, writer of children's books and musician. He made his literary debut in 1963 with the novel Ringer i et sommervann....
(1937–2004), writer
- Finn Graff
Finn Graff is a Norwegian illustrator.He was born in Wangerooge, Germany as a son of aviator Heinz Friedrich Wöhlecke and translator Margit-Ruth Graff . He was an older brother of Jens Graff. He moved to Norway in 1946, but had no father and lived at the orphanage Christiania Opfostringshus from...
(1938–), draftsman, newspaper illustrator
- Per Spook
Per Spook is a Norwegian fashion designer. He was running a fashion house in Paris from 1977 to 1995. He was awarded Gullsynålen in 1978, and Gullfingerbølet in 1993. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 2003.-References:...
(1939–), fashionFashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...
designer
- Vivian Zahl Olsen
Vivian Zahl Olsen is a Norwegian illustrator, educated from the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. She has contributed to several television series for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, including Fru Pigalopp, Flode and Puslespill, and illustrated around seventy books...
(1942–), illustrator
- Kjersti Scheen
Kjersti Scheen is a Norwegian journalist, illustrator, novelist, crime writer and children's writer. She made her literary debut in 1976 with the children's book Fie og mørket. Her novel Teppefall from 1994 introduced a series of crime novels with ex actress "Margaret Moss" as the main character...
(1943–), writer and illustrator
- Inge Grødum
Inge Grødum is a Norwegian illustrator.He was born in Ulefoss, and attended the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1970 to 1973. He worked for the newspaper Nationen from 1973 to 1987 and in Aftenposten since 1987. He has published several books with collections of his...
(1943–), draftsman, newspaper illustrator
- Torill Thorstad Hauger
Torill Thorstad Hauger is a Norwegian non-fiction writer, children's writer, and illustrator.She made her literary début in 1976, with the prize-winning documentary Karl Eugen Olsen fra Vika...
(1943-), writer and visual artist
- Kjersti Scheen
Kjersti Scheen is a Norwegian journalist, illustrator, novelist, crime writer and children's writer. She made her literary debut in 1976 with the children's book Fie og mørket. Her novel Teppefall from 1994 introduced a series of crime novels with ex actress "Margaret Moss" as the main character...
(1943-), writer and illustrator
- Ellen Auensen
Ellen Auensen is a Norwegian illustrator.She was born in Oslo. She finished her secondary education at Oslo Cathedral School in 1963, and graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in 1968. In the same year she was hired as an illustrator and political cartoonist in...
(1944–), draftsman
- Fam Ekman
Fam Ekman is a Swedish/Norwegian children's writer and illustrator. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden as the daughter of actors Hasse Ekman and Eva Henning, and moved to Oslo in 1954....
(1946-), visual artist, illustrator, writer
- Harald Nordberg (1949–), illstrator
- Viggo Ree (1950-), draftsman, wildlife expert
- Nina Malterud (1951–), ceramist
- Egil Haraldsen (1952-), graphic designer
- InkaLill (1957-), comic artist
- Hilde Kramer (1960-), illustrator
- Akin Düzakin
Akin Düzakin is a Turkish-Norwegian illustrator and children's author.Düzakin has illustrated a wide range of children's books, including books about Tvillingbror and Tvillingsøster of Liv Marie Austrem...
(1961-), illustrator
- Svein
Svein Nyhus is a Norwegian illustrator and writer of children's books.-External links:* *...
and Egil NyhusEgil Nyhus is a Norwegian illustrator.He was born in Tønsberg as the twin brother of illustrator/writer Svein Nyhus. He took his education at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1981 to 1985, worked as a newspaper illustrator in Tønsbergs Blad from 1986 to 1987 and...
(1962–), illustrators
- Christopher Nielsen
Christopher Nielsen is a Norwegian comics artist. He is especially known for his subcultural depictions. Nielsen got his first comics printed in 1980 after entering a competition in the Norwegian anarchist magazine, Gateavisa. Only three years later he got his first album published...
(1963–), comic artist
- John Arne Sæterøy (Jason) (1965–), comic artist
- Siri Dokken
Siri Dokken is a Norwegian illustrator.She was born in Bærum, and attended the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. She worked for the newspaper Dag og Tid from 1994 and then for Dagsavisen since 1987. She won the Editorial Cartoon of the Year award in 2007.-References:...
(1966–), illustrator
- Anita Killi (1968–), animator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
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