Reidar Aulie

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Reidar Aulie, 1970

Reidar Aulie (born March 13, 1904 in Oslo ; † November 24, 1977 there ) was a Norwegian painter .

His left-wing political pictures from the 1930s became famous. During the German occupation, Aulie was temporarily imprisoned in the Grini POW camp in Bærum . In 1950, after political controversies about the interior of the Oslo City Hall , he designed the fresco History of the Labor Movement . Aulie became a professor in 1958 and rector of the Norwegian State Art Academy ( Statens Kunstakademi ) in 1965 .