Harald Vike, 1906-1987: A Retrospective Tapa blanda - 1990

Kingstream Fine Art, Perth W.A., 1990. Softcover. Fine. AUSTRALIAN ART100 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. #010823 Vike, Harald, 1906-1987 Painters -- Australia -- Biography Harald Hansen Vike (1906-1987), artist, illustrator and cartoonist, was born on 30 August 1906 at Kodal, Norway, one of six children of Oskar Hansen Gallis, farmer, and his wife Berte Hausdatter, née Haugtuft. As a child Harald moved with his family to Vike, from where he took his name. He left school at 14 to work on the family farm but in 1923, aged 17, he began working as a stoker on board whaling ships. In 1927 he jumped ship and spent six months in Western Australia before returning to Norway.Interested from an early age in drawing and painting, he decided to settle in Western Australia and to become a professional artist. He arrived at Fremantle on 1 August 1929. Five ft 10 ins (178 cm) tall, of solid build and physically strong, he first earned money in Perth as a professional boxer. He took art lessons at James W. R.… Leer más