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Dagfinn Bakke (16 August 1933 – 1 January 2019) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and printmaker.
Career
Bakke was born inLødingen Municipality
Lødingen () is a municipality in Nordland county in Norway. Lødingen is located on the southeastern corner of the island of Hinnøya, and is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Ofoten. The administrative centre of the munic ...
, and settled in Svolvær
(Norwegian language, Norwegian, ), , or is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town and the administrative centre of Vågan Municipality in Nordland County, Norway. It is located on the island of Austvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago, alon ...
. From 1952 he worked as illustrator for the magazine '' Magasinet For Alle''. From 1956 to 1992 he was appointed as illustrator for the newspaper ''Lofotposten
''Lofotposten'' is a newspaper published in Lofoten, with its headquarters located in Svolvær. It is the biggest publication in Northern Norway.
History and profile
The newspaper was established by Joh. E. Paulsen in 1896. Following the occupati ...
'', where he had a regular column which he signed as ''DAN''. He illustrated several books, and is represented at the National Gallery of Norway
The National Gallery () is a gallery in Oslo, Norway. Since 2003 it is administratively a part of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.
History
It was established in 1842 following a parliamentary decision from 1836. Originally lo ...
and other art galleries.
His book illustrations include several humorous books by Arthur Arntzen
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A common spelling variant used in many Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages is Artur. In Spanish and Ital ...
.
In 2013, Bjørn Tore Pedersen wrote a biography about Bakke.
Awards
In 1983, his caricature ofMargaret Thatcher
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, pictured as a besom
A besom () is a broom, a household implement used for sweeping. The term is mostly reserved for a traditional broom constructed from a bundle of twigs tied to a stout pole. The twigs used could be broom (i.e. '' Genista'', from which comes the ...
-riding witch escorted home from the Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; ), commonly referred to as The Falklands, is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and from Cape Dub ...
by British aircraft, won first prize at the International Salon of Cartoons in Montreal.
He was awarded the in 2015.
References
Further reading
* 1933 births 2019 deaths People from Lødingen People from Vågan 20th-century Norwegian illustrators 21st-century Norwegian illustrators Norwegian magazine illustrators Norwegian printmakers Norwegian editorial cartoonists Norwegian caricaturists Norwegian columnists 20th-century Norwegian painters 21st-century Norwegian painters Norwegian male painters 20th-century Norwegian male artists 21st-century Norwegian male artists {{Norway-artist-stub