Tore Hamsun (6 March 1912 – 10 January 1995) was a Norwegian painter, writer, and publisher born in

Hamarøy Municipality or is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Oppeid ...

. He was the son of the Nobel Prize winning novelist

Knut Hamsun Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to conscio ...

and actress

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. At the age of five, his family moved from Hamarøy to

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, a large agricultural property in

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. Like the rest of his three siblings, he showed artistic ability at a young age but was the only one to take up a career in art. In 1933, he began Torstein Torsteinssons painting school and studied at an Art Academy in

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from 1934 to 1935. Hamsun later completed studies at the

Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts The Norwegian National Academy of Arts () was a former Norwegian tertiary institution in Oslo, offering studies in the area of fine art. Along with four other academies, it merged to form the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (, KHiO) in 1996. ...

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and debuted as a painter in 1940. He was remembered for his landscape paintings influenced by

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. Some of his paintings contained or were based on motifs derived from his father's books. From 1942 to 1944, Hamsun reluctantly accepted the position as temporary publishing director of

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS, commonly referred to as Gyldendal N.F. and in Norway often only as Gyldendal, is one of the largest Norway, Norwegian publishing houses. It was founded in 1925 after buying rights to publications from the Denmark, Dan ...

publishing company after

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, a close friend of Tore's father, was arrested in 1941. His father,

was of the founders and owners of the publishing company. During the

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, Hamsun helped

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flee to Norway. At the end of the war, Hamsun was sentenced to nine months jail for membership in the

Nasjonal Samling The Nasjonal Samling (, NS; ) was a Norway, Norwegian far-right politics, far-right political party active from 1933 to 1945. It was the only legal party of Norway from 1942 to 1945. It was founded by former minister of defence Vidkun Quisling a ...

. He was imprisoned for five months. In 1940, Hamsun published ''Mein Vater Knut Hamsun'' (My Father Knut Hamsun) and in 1956, he published a collection of his father's poems. Hamsun had inheritance rights to his father's farm

but gave it to his brother Arild Hamsun and settled nearby in Nørholmskilen. Hamsun married pianist Ruth Elisabeth Grung and had three children with her. In 1953, he married painter Marianne Doris Ferring and also had two children. Tore Hamsun died after a traffic accident in

in 1995 and was buried in the Eide cemetery.

Publications

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Norwegian expatriates in Germany Members of Nasjonal Samling People convicted of treason for Nazi Germany against Norway Road incident deaths in Norway