Kjellaug Hølaas (13 August 1906 – 12 September 1990) was a Norwegian textile artist and educator.

Biography

Hølaas was born in

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality is the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 116,000 as of January 2020, following th ...

on 13 August 1906, a daughter of Torjus Skajaa and Karen Vennesland. In 1926 she married journalist and writer

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. She studied the

Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry The National College of Art and Design () was established in 1818. In 1996, the National College of Art and Design became part of Oslo National Academy of the Arts (''Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo'', KHiO), along with the Norwegian National Academy of ...

(''Statens kunstakademi'') under Jacob Prytz, specializing as

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. She was assigned to the company J. Tostrup from 1930 to 1933, as designer, and thereafter she studied weaving in Denmark. From 1936 to 1972 she was appointed teacher at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry, where she chaired the textile education from 1948. Her own production include decorative tapestry to the

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. She was also engaged as designer for Seiersborg Tekstilfabrikk. Hølaas was awarded the Jacob Prize in 1964. She died in

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on 12 September 1990.

References

1906 births 1990 deaths People from Kristiansand 20th-century women textile artists Norwegian tapestry artists Norwegian educators Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni Academic staff of the Oslo National Academy of the Arts {{norway-bio-stub