Herman Isaachsen Willoch (27 June 1892 – 11 February 1968) was a Norwegian painter. He was born in

Alversund Alversund is a village in Alver municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the mainland of the Lindås peninsula, along the shore of the Alverstraumen strait. The village sits between the villages of Alverstraumen (acr ...

1910 Census
/ref> as the son of vicar Christian Abel Isaachsen, a grandson of

Isaach Isaachsen Isaach Isaachsen (25 May 1774 – 15 August 1828) was a Norwegian politician. He was born in 1774 as the son of wealthy businessman Daniel Isaachsen and his first wife Christiane Hedvig Christensen. He married a Hedevig Elisabeth Hansen. He was th ...

. He was the cousin of

Odd Isaachsen Willoch Odd Isaachsen Willoch (26 February 1885 – 9 April 1940) was a Norwegian naval officer who commanded one of the two coastal defence ships defending Narvik during the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940. Personal life Odd Isaachsen Wi ...

. The family eventually moved to Uranienborg, Oslo. He later resided in

Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...

. He studied under

Pola Gauguin Pola Gauguin (6 December 1883 – 2 July 1961) was a Danish-Norwegian painter, art critic and biographer. Biography Paul Rollon Gauguin was born in Paris, France. He was the youngest of five children born to the famed French artist Paul Gauguin a ...

at the

Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts The Norwegian National Academy of Arts ( no, Statens kunstakademi) is a Norwegian Academy offering studies in the area of Fine Art. The Academy currently offers 3-year bachelor and 2-year MA programmes. The "Norwegian National Academy of the Arts" ...

. He worked mainly with

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

es, decorating the city hall in

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. He is buried at

Vestre gravlund Vestre Gravlund is a cemetery in the Frogner borough of Oslo, Norway. It is located next to the Borgen metro station. At , it is the largest cemetery in Norway. It was inaugurated in September 1902 and also contains a crematorium (''Vestre kre ...

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1892 births 1968 deaths People from Lindås 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni Burials at Vestre gravlund 20th-century Norwegian male artists {{Norway-painter-stub