Sigurd Winge (born March 14, 1909, in

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, died January 22, 1970, in

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) was a Norwegian visual artist, best known as a graphic artist and for his monumental art.His father, Johan Ernst Winge (1858-1949), was a city architect in

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, from where the family moved to

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(Kristiania)in 1917.He studied at th
Academy of fine arts
under

Axel Revold Axel Revold (24 December 1887 – 11 April 1962) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator, and art professor at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts for twenty years. He was highly decorated for his merits. Personal life Revold was born in ...

from 1929 to 1932. In 1933 he made his debut at the exhibition of 11 young painters in the Artists' Association in Oslo, and the same year he was also represented at the

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. It was also in 1933 that he met

Rolf Nesch Rolf (Emil Rudolf) Nesch (January 7, 1893 – October 27, 1975) was German born, Norwegian expressionist artist, especially noted for his printmaking. Career Nesch was born at Esslingen am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was the so ...

who had a great influence on his art.Winge was admitted to the World's Fairs in Paris in 1937 and in New York in 1939, where he made a thirty meter long frieze with fishing boats. Other exhibitions with his art include the

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(Nasjonalgalleriet) in 1956, 1965 and 1978, Bergen Picture Gallery 1959.He made decorations in, among other things, the mosaic frieze at Oslo Commerce School, 1948-56, which was the inspiration for

's Herring Fishing from 1965. Winge also made the foundation wall i
Østre Krematorium
Great Chapel 1957-68. Winge became a professor at the

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, in 1969. At the same time, he worked on the staging of ''

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'' at

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, together with his son,

Stein Winge Stein Winge (born 10 November 1940) is a Norwegian stage producer, theatre director and International Emmy Nominated actor. He has produced numerous plays and operas, and was theatre director at the National Theatre from 1990 to 1992. He was decor ...

. He designed the costumes and had the scenography. Father and son were looking forward to this first major professional collaboration, which they had now implemented. Unfortunately, they did not work together a long time. Sigurd Winge, died suddenly, a
Hotel Britannia
in

22.01.1970, in the arms of his son,

. The funeral took place, 02.02.1970, i
Østre Krematorium
where he had worked for 11 years with the decoration "The Resurrection" Some of the plans of Sigurd Winge the same year: A mission to

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, one mosaic was planned as a gift to the 900 year jubilee, in the street body on

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. At the

, he was supposed to create a material class, which was something completely new at the academy. The

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, had invited Sigurd Winge to create an exhibition in

in the autumn of 1970.

References

1909 births 1970 deaths 20th-century Norwegian painters Mosaic artists {{norway-painter-stub