Gunnvor Advocaat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian painter
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Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Gunnvor Advocaat
- Gunnvor Advocaat (17 August 1912 – 26 July 1997) was a Norwegian painter.
- She was regarded among the pioneers of abstract painting in Norway. She was born in Kristiania to ambassador Gijsbert Diedrik Advocaat and Gunnvor Katharina Eckbo.
- She was first married to conservator-restorer Ole Fredrik Hvinden Haug, who died only months after their marriage, and later to painter Øistein Thurman.Her works represented in the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art include the paintings Komposisjon (1966) and Gult over sort (1974).
- She is also represented in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and other galleries.
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