Ragnvald Jørgensen

Ragnvald Jørgensen ( 27 September 1899 - 7 April 1979) was a Norwegian journalist and painter who worked for Bergens Tidende from 1923 to 1969.

Career

Jørgensen was born on 27 September 1899 in Tonstad, Norway, the son of Torkjell Jørgensen and Martha Tonstad. As a young man he moved to Bergen where his older brother had been living and then subsequently moved to Paris where lived in Montmartre as part of the starving artist community under the tutelage of André Lhote and Pedro Araujo. In the 1930s, he managed to transfer the woodcut system to the printing plates in the rotary press so that Bergens Tidende could already at that time print in four colours. He milled out the printing plates according to his own drawings and provided the newspaper's Saturday supplement with colourful illustrations. He was the newspaper's art critic and was a painter himself at the same time. The motifs were evocative Bergen motifs.

During World War II, as an active journalist and member of the Norwegian resistance movement, he was imprisoned in the Grini concentration camp and came out in the summer of 1945 with a finished manuscript of Med blyant på Grini. In later years he also painted and drew from Granvin in Hardanger where he spent the summers, and from several trips abroad.

The husband of Solveig Krag Immann and father of two children, Marit and Jon, Jørgensen died on 7 April 1979 in Bergen.

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