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Else Thoresen (May 1, 1906 - 1994) was a Norwegian-American artist, who studied in Oslo at the Academy and in Brussels. While in Norway she met Danish artist Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen and married him in 1935. As a result she lived and worked in Denmark for a decade, until she had to flee the Nazi occupation in 1944 and go to Sweden. After the war, she returned to the US and remained there.

The Danish National Gallery has one of her symbolic, Surrealist canvases:

Brændende Jord / Terre brûlée, 1946 - oil on panel (SMK)

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