Kåre Jonsborg
Kåre Jonsborg
Kåre (Mikkelsen) Jonsborg Oslo, Norway (b 1912, Grue, Norway d 1977, Borøy, Norway) Norwegian painter and textile artist. He studied under professor Georg Jakobsen and graduated at Statens Kunstakademi (State Academy of Art).
Merits
His works span from oil, tempera, woodcutting and stone mosaics. He was the creator of some of the biggest monumental art decorations in Norway and has been innovative in his art, is represented in The National Gallery and has been awarded a number of distinctions - among others The King's Medal For Merits, The Fearnley Scholarship. He was also invited participant on the international biennale, "Biennale internationale de tapisserie" in Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne and is discussed in i the work of Piere Verlet-Michel Florisone and Adolf Hoffmeister_Francois Tabard: "Le grand livre de la tapisserie" (La Biblioteque des arts, Paris)
Works
He has also created a number of altar pieces among others in Svalbard church, designs for monumental tapistries in Oslo Rådhus Oslo Town Hall) i Oslo (voven by Else Halling, Norsk Billedvev ("Norwegian Tapistry"). He also created a vast production of figurative paintings and tapistry designs. For many years he had a fruitful partnership with the textile artist Else Halling in Norsk Billedvev, aiming to find a useful range of plant dyes for dying wool from spelsau. A The cooperation resulted in significant achievements.
Importance
The works of the artists Sigurd Winge, Else Hagen, Kåre Jonsborg and others mark a new era in Norwegian room art.
In his art he was dedicated to geometrical theories of how to build and compose pictures, of the art and colour theories of Piero della Franceska, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso og Eugene Delacroix.
He was also teaching at the Statens Kunst- og Håndverksskole (The State Art and Crafts School)in Oslo.
Sources
- Leif Østby: "Norges kunsthistorie" (Norwegian Art History)
- Øystein Parmann: "Norsk Billedvev", (Niorwegian Tapistry)
- Piere Verlet-Michel Florisone, Adolf Hoffmeister_Francois Tabard: Le grand livre de la tapisserie (La Biblioteque des arts, Paris)_(The great Book of tapistry)