Personal Life
He was married to the painter Sophie Marie Stoltenberg Thomesen (1849–1926). He was the brother-in-law of brother of journalist, Fernanda Nissen and the son–in-law of Norwegian merchant and politician, Thomes Thomesen. He was the father of geologist, Werner Werenskiold (1883–1961) and sculptor, Dagfin Werenskiold (1892–1977).
Read more about this topic: Erik Werenskiold
Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or life:
“The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today’s social change is to begin to perceive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.”
—Margaret Adams (b. 1916)
“School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.”
—Ivan Illich (b. 1926)