Erling Skaug
Erling Sigvard Skaug (15 December 1938 – 7 March 2022) was a Norwegian art conservator.
He started his career at the National Gallery of Norway and also worked as a conservator at the Norsk Folkemuseum and the Oldsakssamlingen. In 1995 he took the dr.philos. degree and in 1997 he was hired as a professor of conservation at the University of Oslo. He retired in 2004, but was a guest scholar at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in 2008–09. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[1][2]
In 2018 he issued the polemic book Spillet om Nasjonalgalleriet. En politisk skandale, in which he criticized the process of discontinuing the National Gallery of Norway and moving it to the National Museum of Norway.[3]
References
- ^ "Jubilanter". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 15 December 2008. p. 12 (part 2).
- ^ Bronken, Ida; van der Meulen, Douwtje (25 March 2022). "Erling Sigvard Skaug". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 60.
- ^ Hammer, Sara Hegna; Vollan, Mari Brenna (27 October 2018). "Beskylder Giske for bløff". Klassekampen (in Norwegian). pp. 48–49.
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