Bard Breivik - Artist Info

About Bard Breivik

  • Biography

    From an early age in Bergen, Breivik was surrounded by artistic impulses. He lived with his mother and her parents. The mother was the decorator of a department store, and the grandfather, who was an engineer, ran an engine factory. Breivik described his childhood insight into his grandfather's work process and drawings of machines and machine parts as «a kind of magic. 1 His father was an artist and educator and his wife was an actor. Breivik studied at the Bergen Academy of the Arts, Vestlandets Kunstakademi and St. Martin's School of Art in London. He became one of our foremost sculptors and was a very world-famous artist with studios in Beijing, Brooklyn and Oslo. In addition to a large number of exhibitions in galleries and mus1. Veiteberg and Leppiniemi 2016, page 78....

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