This week went by fast! It's Friday, which means I will show you another ExLibris from my collection!
Today's ExLibris is by artist #PerKramerJr for the engineer A. W. Jenssen. It's a #linocut showing a road bridge and the phrase "Labor Nobilitat". The ExLibris is mounted on a catalogue card by the previous owner, #RolfNystedHeier. He had these cards printed sometime between the 1940s and 1970s.
At the beginning of the year, I purchased the #NystedHeier collection—or what was left of it. Ca. Half of the collection was destroyed a while ago, i.e., it was thrown into the trash by a person who did not deem it valuable or have any interest in it. The other half was kept by Nysted Heier's son, now an old man, who cherished it. I took over the remaining collection, including books, artists' portfolios, and about 2.500 original #Exlibris. I'm trying to reconstruct what was lost.
There was a sudden, drastic increase in #ExLibris activities in Norway in the 1940s - during + after the German occupation. I don't yet know why. The increased interest led to the founding of the #NorwegianExLibrisSociety, which was short-lived & dissolved in the 1970s. It looks like the society was a small group of men working in #Advertising, many of whom did their training at the #NorwegianSchoolOfBusiness in #Bergen or #Oslo. And I cannot stop my brain from thinking #MadMenTVShow