Håkon Anton Fagerås

[2][3] Håkon Anton Fagerås was born in Drøbak and spent his early years in Bø, Telemark.

From 1995 to 1996 he was apprenticed to the painter Jan Valentin Sæther,[4] subsequent to which he received his education at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (1996-1997) as well as the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts (1997-2001).

[6] In 2011 Fagerås' monument to Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen and his first expedition to reach the South Pole, titled 90 grader syd ("90 degrees south"), was unveiled at Bygdøy by King Harald V of Norway.

[7][8] Simultaneously, a bust of Amundsen carved from ice was unveiled at the South Pole by then prime minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg.

In 2012, he designed a silver coin to the value of 200 Norwegian kroner in celebration of the joint 75th birthdays of the king and queen of Norway;[10] in 2019 a 20 kroner circulating coin celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of sculptor Gustav Vigeland;[11] and in 2021 a 20 kroner circulating coin celebrating the 250th anniversary of Lutheran minister Hans Nielsen Hauge.