Issue 14 August 2020: Carl Nesjar Centenary

Nesjar was born in Larvik in 1920. He studied at Pratt Institute in New York, which gave him international contacts that would later influence him as an artist. Art embedded in a setting was Nesjar's primary interest.

On 1957 he met Pablo Picasso, who had become interested in sandblasting natural concrete and delivered drawings for murals on government buildings.

Nesjar turned Picasso's drawings into large-scale art. The two of them worked together on many sculptures. Nesjar was very interested in water in all its forms as well as the vastness of the ocean. The fountain model on the stamp stands as a good example of this interest.