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Gino Scarpa (born 8 November 1924) is a Norwegian painter, printmaker and sculptor of Italian origin, former mountaineer. He was born in Venice, where he grew up, with inspectors Silvio Scarpa and Linda Gaggio. Read the full biography

Gino Scarpa (born 8 November 1924) is a Norwegian painter, printmaker and sculptor of Italian origin, former mountaineer. He was born in Venice, where he grew up, with inspectors Silvio Scarpa and Linda Gaggio. He studied architecture in Venice and printmaking in Malmö. He worked several years as a mountain guide in the Dolomites, until he moved to Copenhagen in 1958, where he established himself as a full-time artist. Having moved to Oslo in 1970, he became a Norwegian citizen in 1978. He is represented in the National Gallery of Norway with the 1978 painting Daggry and prints. He is represented in the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo with the sculptures Signum (1972) and Bølge (1973).