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Sigri Welhaven

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Name
  
Sigri Welhaven

Died
  
1991


Parents
  
Hjalmar Welhaven

Role
  
Hjalmar Welhaven's daughter

Great-grandparents
  
Else Margaret Cammermeyer, Johan Ernst Welhaven

Grandparents
  
Johan Sebastian Welhaven

Sigri Welhaven (1894 – 1991) was a Norwegian sculptor. She was the daughter of Hjalmar Welhaven, and her first husband was Jean Heiberg. She lived in Paris from 1919 to 1939. She has made busts of Thorvald Lammers, Halvdan Koht, Hauk Aabel and Sem Sæland. She made a number of animal sculptures, and is represented in the National Gallery of Norway with Elefantgruppe from 1965.

References

Sigri Welhaven Wikipedia