TRYGGVASAFN
The Tryggvi Ólafsson Art Collection
Selected Works – Summer Exhibition
THE ARTIST
Tryggvi Ólafsson was born in Neskaupstaður on 1 June 1940. He certainly had a remarkable painting career. Not only was he one of Iceland’s pioneers in pop art, but his style is immediately recognisable.
The Tryggvi Ólafsson Art Collection
When the Tryggvi Ólafsson Art Collection opened its first exhibition in 2001, it only owned about 30 paintings. Currently, the collection contains around 150 lacquer, oil and acrylic paintings, supplemented by some 180 collages, drawings, lithographic prints and printed posters, which altogether total well over 300 works.
HOME OF THE ART COLLECTION
Three different collections had been organised in a building scenically situated in downtown Neskaupstaður: on the ground floor, the Tryggvi Ólafsson Art Collection; on the second floor, Jósafat Hinriksson’s Seafaring and Smithy Collection; and on the third floor, the Museum of Natural History at Neskaupstaður
News
Tryggvasafn now has a website
Tryggvasafn recently registered the web domain: www.tryggvasafn.is. This event was made possible by a grant from the East Iceland Development Fund. Visitors to the museum´s website can access data in both Icelandic and English. Information about the artist...
Selected Works – Summer Exhibition of the Tryggvi Ólafsson Art Collection
If he had not died on 3 January 2019, Tryggvi Ólafsson, painter, would have turned 80 on 1 June 2020. To celebrate this date, the Tryggvi Ólafsson Art Collection at the Neskaupstaður Museum House set up a summer exhibition entitled Úrval (Selected Works) which was...
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Egilsbraut 2
740 Neskaupstað
Iceland
Opening hours
Summer of 2023:
13:00-17:00 every day of the week.
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