Ulrik Adolph Hendriksen (March 7, 1891 – January 24, 1960) was a Danish-Norwegian painter and graphic artist.''Norsk biografisk leksikon'': Ulrik Hendriksen
/ref> Hendriksen was born in

Faaborg Faaborg or Fåborg () is an old port town located on Faaborg Fjord in Faaborg-Midtfyn municipality on the island of Funen in Denmark. By road, Faaborg is located southwest of Odense, west-northwest of Svendborg, and roughly southeast of Midd ...

, Denmark. He studied restoration techniques at the Berlin Art Academy from 1909 to 1911 and then moved to Norway, where he was an assistant to

Emanuel Vigeland Emanuel Vigeland (2 December 1875 – 22 December 1948) was a multitalented Norwegian artist. He is known for a variety of decorations of Scandinavian churches and for ''Tomba Emmanuelle'', his mausoleum at Slemdal in Oslo. His elder brother ...

. He was highly involved in church conservation until the Second World War. His work was summarized in 1952 in a large-scale photo exhibition of Norwegian decorative painting art. As a painter, he participated in the Autumn Exhibition ( no, Høstutstillingen) in 1919 and he eventually had a permanent atelier. Hendriksen's paintings were featured at exhibitions in Copenhagen, Rome, and Paris (at the 1931

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), and he is represented in the National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design. Hendriksen was one of the founders of the Young Artists' Society ( no, Unge Kunstneres Samfund) in 1921, and he was an executive member of the Visual Artists Board ( no, Bildende Kunstneres Styre), in which capacity he made important contributions to art policy. He was the father of the artist Egil Weiglin (1917–1997)''Store norske leksikon'': Egil Weiglin
/ref> and the opera singer

Arne Hendriksen Arne Olav Weiglin Hendriksen (1 January 1911 – 5 November 1996) was a Norwegian-Swedish ceramic artist and opera singer (tenor). Biography Hendriksen was born in Berlin, Germany. He was trained as a ceramic artist, but had a talent for singing ...

. The annual Ulrik Hendriksen Memorial Award is named after him. He died in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...

Awards

* Medal of St. Hallvard, 1958 * Order of St. Olav, knight, first class, 1959

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hendriksen, Ulrik 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters People from Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality 1891 births 1960 deaths Danish emigrants to Norway Danish expatriates in Germany Berlin University of the Arts alumni 20th-century Norwegian male artists