Gino Scarpa (8 November 1924 – 4 December 2022) was an Italian-born Norwegian painter, printmaker, sculptor and mountaineer. Scarpa was born in

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, where he also grew up, to inspector Silvio Scarpa and Linda Gaggio. He studied architecture in Venice, and printmaking in

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. He worked several years as mountain guide in the

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, until he moved to

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in 1958, where he established himself as a full-time artist. He moved to

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in 1970, and became a Norwegian citizen in 1978. He is represented in the

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with the painting ''Daggry'' from 1978, as well as prints. He is represented in the

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in Oslo with the sculptures ''Signum'' (1972) and ''Bølge'' (1973). Scarpa died in

on 4 December 2022, aged 98.

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1924 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Norwegian male artists 20th-century Norwegian painters 21st-century Norwegian male artists 21st-century Norwegian painters Artists from Venice Italian emigrants to Norway Norwegian male painters Norwegian printmakers Norwegian sculptors People with acquired Norwegian citizenship {{Norway-painter-stub