Gunnar S. Gundersen

[1] Gunnar S. Gundersen was born in Førde, in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway.

Gundersen was among the young artists who attended the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in the years after Norway was liberated from Nazi-Germany.

His generation wanted to free themselves for the traditional Norwegian figurative painting and sought inspiration from leading artists in Europe at the time.

Danish artist Richard Mortensen, as well as Auguste Herbin, Serge Poliakoff and Victor Vasarely.

Even though he never received the international acclaim he might have deserved, he became a unifying figure among his contemporaries in Norway.