Alf Rolfsen

Alf Rolfsen 1895-1979, Norway.He was the youngest of the painters called “Fresco brothers” who received a series of important decoration commission in public buildings in Norway from around 1920 and up until the Second World War. Rolfsen trained in Copenhagen and Paris and was heavily influenced by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, who he met in Paris, and by the Cubist pictorial style which characterized contemporary European art.

When he returned to Norway in 1922, he received a commission to decorate an interior wall in the general office of the new Telegraphy building in Kongensgate in Oslo (then called Kristiania). Of subsequent commissions he is particularly remembered for his decoration dated 1937 of the Vestre cemetery’s crematorium in Oslo. 

• • Alf Rolfsen
    Mural in Telegrafbygningen, Kongens gate, Oslo
    Painting, 1922