About Salo Grenning
Lived 1918 – 1986 (aged 67). Salo Grenning was a Norwegian illustrator.
Salo Grenning, pen name Pedro (5 April 1918 – 1 February 1986) was a Norwegian illustrator.
He was born as Salo Goldfarb in Bergen as a son of businessman Leopold Goldfarb (from Rajgród, lived 1878–1933) and Sonja Epstein (from Suwałki, lived 1888–1970). His first newspaper drawing was published in 1933 in Bergens Arbeiderblad. He studied at the Belfast School of Art from 1935 to 1936, at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts from 1936 to 1937 and at Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1937 to 1938. He adopted the pen name Pedro in February 1941, one year after Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Norway. He fled to the United Kingdom in 1941, via Shetland (together with Leif Andreas Larsen) to Scotland. In 1944, as a soldier in the British Army,
In July 1961 in Stavern he married Bjørg Sigrunn Støland (1924–1998). He died in February 1986 in Oslo.
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Who was Salo Grenning?
Norwegian artist (1918–1986)
When was Salo Grenning born?
Salo Grenning was born on 5 April 1918 in Bergen.
When did Salo Grenning die?
Salo Grenning died on 1 February 1986.
What was Salo Grenning's occupation?
Salo Grenning was an illustrator.
What nationality was Salo Grenning?
Salo Grenning was Norwegian.
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