Olaf Gulbransson
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| Born | Olaf Leonhard Gulbransson 26 May 1873 |
| Died | 18 September 1958 (aged 85) |
Olaf Leonhard Gulbransson (26 May 1873 in
Biography
From 1885-93, he trained at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. From 1890, he worked for many Norwegian
In 1929 he became professor at the
Gulbransson illustrated many books, including the children's books Det var engang (Once upon a time), which was published simultaneously in Norway and Germany in 1934, and Und so weiter (And so on) which was published in Germany in 1954.
Gulbransson was married three times. His 1906 marriage to Grete Jehly produced a son, Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, who became a noted church architect. His third marriage was with Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's niece, Dagny Bjørnson.
Gulbransson also gave his name to the Olaf Gulbransson Prize, won by cartoonists such as Volker Kriegel and Michael Sowa. In 2004 the artists Lars Fiske and Steffen Kverneland published the book Olaf G., a retrospective comic book about Olaf Gulbransson.
References
- ^ "Olaf Leonhard Gulbransson". Store norske leksikon. 25 November 2019. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
- ^ Klaus Mann: Der Simplicissimus. In: Das Neue Tagebuch, V. Jahrgang 1937, p. 214
Related reading
- Simplicissimus:Eine Auswahl der Jahrgänge 1896–1914. Richard Christ, Rütten & Loening (GDR) 1978 (in German)
External links
- The Olaf Gulbransson Museum in Tegernsee
- The Official Olaf Gulbransson website
- One of Gulbransson's well-known portraits of Ibsen
- Old comic series by Olaf Gulbransson
- Many comics by Olaf Gulbransson
- Works from Simplicissimus
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