Jean Heiberg

Jean Hjalmar Dahl Heiberg (19 December 1884 – 27 May 1976) was a Norwegian painter, sculptor, designer and art professor.

Career Heiberg finished his secondary education at Hamar in 1903. He studied at the Royal Drawing School (Den Kongelige Tegneskole) in Kristiania from 1903 to 1904, and in Munich from 1904 to 1905. He studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris in 1905. After a period in Kristiania, he moved to Paris again, and was a student of Henri Matisse from 1908 to 1910. After his marriage in 1913, the couple stayed in Rome and Florence the following year.

Heiberg was appointed a professor at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1935 to 1955, In 1956 he was decorated Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.