Carl Axel Løvenskiold (13 January 1912 – 28 September 1980) was a Norwegian landowner and painter.

Personal life

He was born in

Ullern Ullern is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway. History The borough has its name from an old farm, Norse ''Ullarin''. The first element is the genitive case of the name of the Norse god Ullr. The last element is ''vin'', meaning pasture or mea ...

as a son of landowner Carl Løvenskiold (1874–1949) and Elise Bruun (1879–1950). He was a grandson of Lord Chamberlain Herman Severin Løvenskiold, great-grandson of Otto Joachim Løvenskiold, great-great-grandson of

Severin Løvenskiold Severin Løvenskiold (7 February 1777 – 15 September 1856) was a Norwegian nobleman, politician and the prime minister of Norway. Family Severin Løvenskiold, the younger, was born in Porsgrunn in Telemark, Norway to Severin Løvenskiold, t ...

, grandnephew of Prime Minister

Carl Otto Løvenskiold Carl Otto Løvenskiold (23 December 1839 – 1 October 1916) was a Norwegian naval officer, business executive and landowner. He served as the Norwegian prime minister in Stockholm during 1884. By birth, he is a member of Løvenskiold noble fa ...

and a second cousin of

. In 1940 he married Lucie

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(born 1917 in

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, died 2006), daughter of Nicolay Nissen Paus (1885–1968; co-owner and CEO of

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) and Else Margrethe Paus, née Paus (born 1885). Although distantly related, Nicolay Nissen Paus and Else Paus belonged to branches of the Paus family that parted in the 17th century. Else Paus, a daughter of businessman

Ole Paus (1846–1931) Ole Paus (24 October 1846 in Skien – 20 March 1931 at Bygdøy, Aker) was a Norwegian iron and steel industrialist and Chairman of the commercial bank Den norske Creditbank (now DNB ASA). He was a first cousin of Henrik Ibsen. Career He a ...

, belonged to the Skien branch, part of the Skien patriciate and related to Henrik Ibsen. Axel and Lucie had two children, son Carl-Axel (1942-1991) and daughter Ingeborg Elise (1944-). Carl-Axel took over Ask Manor and married Anne Cathrine Mustad. Their children are Kristina Nathalia Løvenskiold (born 1974), Carl Axel Løvenskiold (born 1978), who owns Overud Manor, and Fredrik Clarin Løvenskiold (born 1978). Ingeborg Elise married Sven A. Solberg, a grandson of

Peter Collett Solberg Peter Collett Solberg (28 October 1866 – 10 December 1934) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party. He served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament, and played an important role in the companies And. H. Kiær ...

Career

He finished Oslo Commerce School in 1930, then agricultural school in 1933 and agricultural education in

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from 1934 to 1935. He had his income as co-owner of Ullern Manor and owner of Ask Manor in

Ask, Buskerud Ask is a village in Ringerike municipality, Buskerud, Norway. Ash is located along Norwegian national road Rv35 approx. 6 km southwest of the municipality Hønefoss. The village once had a railway station on the Randsfjord Line. Ask is mos ...

. He chaired

Buskerud Buskerud () is a former county and a current electoral district in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark and Vestfold. The region extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Ha ...

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from 1946 to 1952, was a board member of

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from 1956 to 1960 and was a supervisory council member of the conservative newspaper ''

Morgenbladet ''Morgenbladet'' is a Norwegian weekly, newspaper, covering politics, culture and science. History ''Morgenbladet'' was founded in 1819 by the book printer Niels Wulfsberg. The paper is the country's first daily newspaper; however, Adresseavi ...

'' since 1960. He was a board member of Follum Fabrikker from 1961 to 1971, ''Skogbruksforeningen av 1950'' from 1962 to 1968, Forsikringsselskapet Skogbrand from 1967 (previously deputy chair of the supervisory council). He was an active painter who had his debut exhibit at the Autumn Exhibition in 1952. He issued the books ''Ullern Gårds historie'' in 1959, ''Landmannsliv'' in 1962, ''Thorvald Meyer'' in 1968. He also edited a book about the skiing club SK Fram, where he was also a member since 1961. He died in 1980.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lovenskiold, Axel 1912 births 1980 deaths Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters Buskerud politicians Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Axel SK Fram members 20th-century Norwegian male artists