{{Short description|Norwegian artist (1940–2018)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Hariton Pushwagner | image = Pushwagner vsm-crop DSCN2687.jpg | image_size = | caption = Pushwagner in front of Axel Jensen's ship "S/Y Shanti Devi", 1983 | birth_name = Terje Brofos | birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|5|2|df=yes}} | birth_place = Oslo, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|4|24|1940|5|2|df=yes}} | death_place = Oslo, Norway | known_for = Pop art | training = | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = }} [[File:Pushwagner decorated storage building, Tjuvholmen-Oslo.jpg|thumb|270px|Storage building at Tjuvholmen in Oslo, Norway decorated with some of the later works of Pushwagner. From the left: “Subway Kid”, “The factory” and “Kings Cross”.]] thumb|270px|Pushwagner at his opening at Bærum Kunstforening on 7 June 2014 in Sandvika, Norway.
'''Terje Brofos''' (2 May 1940 – 24 April 2018), better known by stage name '''Hariton Pushwagner''', was a Norwegian Pop artist.
==Early life and education== Born as Terje Brofos during a bomb attack in May 1940,<ref name=vg/> he grew in Berg, a neighborhood in the North End<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oslo.kommune.no |title = Oslo kommune - Startsiden}}</ref> of Oslo. In 1944, he was severely injured in a traffic accident. His father Fritjof was an engineer who struggled with alcohol.<ref>Thea Storøy Einan et al (24 April 2018)[https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/3jgGBM/Pushwagner-er-dod Pushwagner er død] ''Aftenposten''</ref> His mother Elsa worked as a biochemist and would eventually leave her husband.<ref name=pm>Petter Mejlænder (2 May 2010) [https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/EpkMA/Fenomenet--Pushwagner Fenomenet Pushwagner] ''Aftenposten''</ref>
During his youth, he excelled in both summer and winter sports. He became one of Norway's best tennis players and in 1955 played in a doubles final for the Norwegian championship with Arne Melander, a match which the duo lost.<ref name=pm/>
Pushwagner finished his education at the State's School of Art and Design of Oslo in 1959. He stated that he quit drawing for a period after his studies and that he struggled for several years to find his personal style.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pluto.no/kunst/pushwagner/biografi.html|title=P U S H W A G N E R|publisher=|accessdate=5 January 2015}}</ref>
==Career== Pushwagner described himself as a spiritual student of Norwegian author Axel Jensen, whom he met at Kunstnernes Hus in 1968.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pluto.no/kunst/pushwagner/intervju.html|title=P U S H W A G N E R|publisher=|accessdate=5 January 2015}}</ref> Pushwagner and Jensen lived together for a time, partly in an apartment in Oslo, Norway and partly in Fredrikstad, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden and Menorca, Spain. Pushwagner illustrated Jensen's book ''Og resten står skrivd i stjernene/And the Rest is Writ(ten) in the Stars'' (1995). Fascinated by comics since childhood, Pushwagner was inspired to start the series "Soft City" and "Doktor Fantastisk" during this period.<ref name=pm/>
Pushwagner won back the rights to his drawings from Morten Dreyer in 2009.
In July 2012, London-based publisher Art / Books published an extensive monograph on his work<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artbookspublishing.co.uk/pushwagner/ |title = Art / Books {{!}} Publishers of fine illustrated books {{!}} Pushwagner}}</ref> to coincide with an exhibition at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom that subsequently toured to Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum in Norway and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mkgallery.org/exhibitions/pushwagner/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724200617/http://www.mkgallery.org/exhibitions/pushwagner |archive-date=2012-07-24 |title=MK Gallery – Pushwagner}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haugar.com/pushwagner/ |title=Pushwagner - Vestfoldmuseene |access-date=2015-05-20 |archive-date=2017-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914221713/http://www.haugar.com/pushwagner/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boijmans.nl/en/7/calendar-exhibitions/calendaritem/1169/pushwagner |title=Calendar & Exhibitions - Museum Boijmans van Beuningen |access-date=2015-05-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623062714/http://www.boijmans.nl/en/7/calendar-exhibitions/calendaritem/1169/pushwagner |archive-date=2015-06-23 }}</ref>
==Personal life and death== Pushwagner was twice divorced and had two daughters.
He was diagnosed with lung cancer and died at Diakonhjemmet Hospital on 24 April 2018.<ref name=vg>Anniken Aronsen (24 April 2018) [https://www.vg.no/rampelys/i/p658g6/pushwagner-er-doed Pushwagner er død] ''VG''.</ref> He was 77.
He is buried at Our Saviour’s cemetery in Oslo.
== Education and further studies == *1958-61, Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry, Oslo, Norway *1963-66, Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway *1970-80, Studies, London, UK and Stockholm, Sweden *1988-89, Studies, New York City, United States *1991-92, Cité internationale des arts in Paris<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pushwagner.no/ |title = Pushwagner}}</ref>
==Bibliography== *{{cite book |last1=Pushwagner |first1=Hariton |title=Soft City |date=2016 |publisher=New York Review of Books |isbn=978-1681370460 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/softcity0000push }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.pushwagner.no Pushwagner homepage] *[http://www.pluto.no/kunst/pushwagner/ Pushwagner infopage] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120308113018/http://www.axel-jensen.no/ Axel Jensen's Homepage]
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