# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thorvald-hellesen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:48:36.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thorvald-hellesen"
name: "Thorvald Hellesen"
slug: "thorvald-hellesen"
description: "Thorvald Hellesen was a Norwegian abstract artist, designer and painter, recognized as a pioneering Cubist in Norway.\n. His art was associated with the Orphic Cubism movement and early non-figurative art. Hellesen is often cited as Norway's first Cubist painter, though his contributions went largely overlooked for decades. In the early 20th century he mingled with leading Parisian avant-garde figures, developing a distinct style that balanced vibrant color and geometric form. By the 2010s and 2020s, renewed scholarly and market interest – including a major 2023 retrospective – brought Hellesen back into the modern art canon, drawing parallels to the posthumous rediscovery of Swedish abstract pioneer Hilma af Klint."
tagline: "Norwegian painter (1888-1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hellesen-Selfportrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1888-12-25"
deathDate: "1937-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37
  momentum:             15.43478260869565
  historical:           4.202592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ثورڤالد هيليسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvald_Hellesen"
    title: "Thorvald Hellesen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvald_Hellesen"
    title: "Thorvald Hellesen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvald_Hellesen"
    title: "Thorvald Hellesen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvald_Hellesen"
    title: "Thorvald Hellesen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13425753"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump