Eva Elisabeth Børresen (29 November 1920 – 3 September 2022) was a Norwegian ceramist.
Born in
Berlin, she studied under sculptor at the
State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (German: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) is a university in Stuttgart, Germany. Founded on 25 June 1761, and located since 1946 on the Weißenhof, the Academy, whose historical sig ...
from 1937 to 1939.
She married carpenter Runar Børresen in 1939, and they settled in Norway, first in
Lillehammer
Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip ...
. She established a ceramic workshop in
Oslo in 1942, and moved to
Trondheim in 1946. She was awarded a gold medal at the
Milan Triennial in 1954. The family eventually moved to
Bergen and later to
Fredrikstad. She died in Fredrikstad on 3 September 2022.
Børresen is represented at the
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.
References
1920 births
2022 deaths
People from Berlin
German emigrants to Norway
Norwegian ceramists
Norwegian centenarians
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