61:(1963–64) where she studied traditional tapestry weaving. She completed her education in Paris (1968–69). In 1964, she married the Polish painter Ryszard Warsinski (1937–1996) with whom she had a daughter, Maria (1965). The marriage was dissolved in 1979. In 1980, she married the lawyer Per Aavatsmark (1928–1990).
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Fuglevaag spent in Poland was particularly significant for her career, not only because she saw how country treated textile art on a level with painting and sculpture but because it gave her ideas about the scope of textile expression.From 1964, she created works in her weaving workshop in
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Norwegian art. From 1964, she worked from her own studio in Oslo, creating wide interest in her expressive woven creations. Influenced by the art she has experienced in Poland and France and increasingly experimenting with form and
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on 19 April 1939, Brit Haldis
Fuglevaag is the daughter of the economist Ørnulf Fuglevaag (1907–63) and Haldis Marie née Karlsen (1912–39). As her mother died when she was born, she was adopted by her uncle, the travel agent Arnfinn Fuglevaag (1902–63), and his wife, Sofie née Moslet (1907–62), a
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