Vilhelm Tveteraas (18 April 1898 – 4 January 1972) was a Norwegian printmaker, painter and illustrator.

Personal life

Tveteraas was born in

Stavanger Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...

to school inspector and politician

Rasmus Tveteraas Rasmus Tveteraas (28 December 1862 – 10 June 1938) was a Norwegian schoolteacher, school inspector and politician. He was son of farmer Ole Johannesen Tveteraas and Kari Larsdatter Rongved, and was the father of printmaker Vilhelm Tveteraa ...

and Laurentze Mæle, and was a brother of librarian Harald L. Tveterås. He was married to dancer and

choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...

Signe Hofgaard Signe Hofgaard Tveteraas (2 April 1901 – 9 January 1998) was a Norwegian dancer, choreographer and organizational leader. She was born in Fredrikshald, and was married to dentist and artist Vilhelm Tveteraas from 1928. Her daughter Tone was ...

from 1928. Their daughter Tone was married to writer

Jens Bjørneboe Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe (9 October 1920 – 9 May 1976) was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a Waldorf school teacher. Bjørneboe was a harsh and eloquent critic of Norwegian society an ...

Career

Tveteraas graduated as dentist in 1921, and worked as dentist in

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. Parallel to his dentist practice, he developed a career as artist. He is particularly noted for his

woodcut Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that ...

s. Among his works are ''Mann og stut'' from 1948, ''Tømmerhoggere'' from 1952, and ''Svart-tjønn'' from 1958, all at the

National Gallery of Norway The National Gallery ( no, Nasjonalgalleriet) is a gallery in Oslo, Norway. Since 2003 it is administratively a part of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design. , the admission cost is 100 Norwegian kroner. History It was establishe ...

. He is represented at the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

in New York City, at the

Bibliothèque nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...

in Paris, and the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

in London.

References

1898 births 1972 deaths People from Stavanger Norwegian printmakers Norwegian illustrators 19th-century Norwegian painters 20th-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters 20th-century printmakers 19th-century Norwegian male artists 20th-century Norwegian male artists {{Norway-artist-stub