Carsten Henrik Hopstock (13 March 1924 – 31 January 2014) was a Norwegian museum curator and art historian.

Biography

Hopstock was born in

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county, Norway. He was the son of pharmacist Frantz Philip Hopstock (1891–1977) and Lilly Haanshus (1887–1982). He graduated from the

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with the

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degree (PhD equivalent) in 1953, majoring in art history and minoring in history and archaeology. In 1958 Hopstock married painter and writer Kirsti Marianne Nygård-Nilssen, daughter of

Arne Nygård-Nilssen Arne Nygård-Nilssen - ca. 1950 - Oslo Museum - OB.F06279a. Arne Nygård-Nilssen (5 April 1899 – 26 July 1958) was a Norwegian art historian, publicist and magazine editor. Biography Nygård-Nilssen grew up in Bergen, Norway where his father w ...

and

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. He died in January 2014. Hopstock's professional career began as early as 1945 with a position as curator at the newly established Berg-Kragerø Museum at Kragerø. In 1954 he was hired as a curator at the

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. As such he was responsible for Bogstad Manor from 1955 and the Norwegian Pharmacy Museum (''Norsk Farmasihistorisk Museum'') from 1963. Important books include ''Stoler og stiler'' (1955 with

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), ''Norwegian Design'' (1957), ''Rosendal. Baroni og bygning'' (1965 with Stephan Tschudi-Madsen), ''Buchholmgården i Kragerø'' (1965), ''Stabbestad – Kragerøslekten Heuchs lystgård'' (1967), ''Kragerø apotek 1770–1970'' (1970), ''Søndre Kalstad og Kragerøslekten Biørn'' (1975) and ''Jarlsberg. En norsk grevelig residens'' (1983 with Wasberg,

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and Hjelde). He contributed to volume three of ''Norges kulturhistorie''. His ultimate work was the two-volume ''Bogstad. Et storgods gjennom 300 år'' in 1997. He was a member of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hopstock, Carsten 1924 births 2014 deaths People from Kragerø University of Oslo alumni Norwegian curators Norwegian art historians Members of the Norwegian Academy