Henrik Sørensen

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Henrik Sørensen
Sørensen, c. 1935-40
Born	(1882-02-12)12 February 1882 Fryksände, Sweden
Died	24 February 1962(1962-02-24) (aged 80)
Nationality	Norwegian
Occupation	painter
Children	Sven Oluf Sørensen
Relatives	Halfdan Cleve (brother-in-law) Cissi Cleve (niece)

Henrik Sørensen (12 February 1882 – 24 February 1962) was a Norwegian painter.

Personal life

Sørensen was born in Fryksände in Sweden as a son of Severin Sørensen and Helene Høibraaten. He was married to Gudrun Klewe, and is father of physicist Sven Oluf Sørensen. He was a brother-in-law of composer Halfdan Cleve.^[1]

Painting career

Sørensen studied drawing at the

He illustrated books by Jørgen Moe, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Ragnhild Jølsen and Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, and painted portraits of the writers Ingeborg Refling Hagen (1932) and Sigurd Christiansen (1936). His painting Jødene (Israels folk) is from 1943.^[1] A painting by Sørensen was used on Norwegian 10 kroner notes from 1954 to 1973.^[4] He has painted altarpieces to the Linköping Cathedral and the Hamar Cathedral.^[1]

During

In 1968 a memorial of Sørensen, made by sculptor Ragnhild Butenschøn, was raised in Lillestrøm. Galleries with works by Sørensen were later raised at two of his favourite painting locations, Holmsbu Billedgalleri in 1973, and Vinje Biletgalleri in Smørklepp in 1991.^[3]

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