Petur Tryggvi

Pétur Tryggvi Hjalmarsson was an Icelandic gold and silversmith.

Background

Tryggvi was born in Ísafjörður in Iceland. He was first trained in the goldsmith shop of his father Hjálmar Torfason in Reykjavík.

Tryggvi was a member of the Exhibition Group of Danish Silversmiths and has several works exhibited at the Koldinghus Museum for Silverware in Kolding Castle, Jutland, Denmark, and at the Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen. He has made the church silver for five churches in Iceland, including for Áskirkja in Reykjavík. at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; at the Crafts Council, London; and at the Galleri Mountain, Denmark.

Director of the Koldinghus Museum, Poul Dedenroth-Schou, explaining why Tryggvi had won the 'Karl Gustav Hansen Prize' in 2010, said that Tryggvi "had attracted attention with his notable jewellery in gold and precious stones, which is also exported to Germany and Japan", as well as working on church silver, "all with a distinctive and powerful idiom". According to Dedenroth-Schou, Tryggve can combine silver with gold, platinum, cement, rusting iron and other materials, and had for many years been a valued member of the "Danish Silversmiths" group.

He died on 8 March 2021.

Exhibitions

Tryggvi has exhibited his work in numerous museums and art galleries since 1979: only the most notable are listed here.

2006 Queens Gallery at Kronborg Castle, Helsinore 2004 Icelandic Design Museum, Garðabær 2003 (and earlier years) Gallery Metal, Copenhagen 2002 Silversmiths Gallery, Koldinghus Museum, Denmark 2001 Bröhan-Museum, State Museum for Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism, Berlin 2001 (and earlier years) Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen 2000 Kjarvalsstaðir Museum, Reykjavík 2000 Herning Art Museum, Herning 1999 Finnish Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki 1998 Hofburg Museum, Vienna 1997 Brøndsalen, Frederiksberg 1990 Röhss Museum for Design and Applied Art, Gothenburg Contemporary Swedish Silver, Stockholm 1989 Scandinavian Contemporary Art Gallery, Copenhagen 1989 'European Design', Tokyo 1985 (and earlier years) Art Association Form Ísland, Reykjavík 1982 Tuborg Art Association, Copenhagen 1979 National Museum of Iceland, Bogasalur, Reykjavík