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Norman Carlberg

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Norman K. Carlberg (November 6, 1928 – November 11, 2018) was an American sculptor, photographer, and printmaker. He is noted as an exemplar of the modular constructivist style. Carlberg was born in Roseau, Minnesota. He was the son of Gustav Carlberg and his wife Alma Forsberg. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and then enlisted in the Air Force. He finished his undergraduate and graduate degree in art at the Yale School of Art under Josef Albers, who was instrumental in his acceptance as a student at Yale and his nomination for a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. During his time in Chile, Norman became good friends with Sergio Castillo, and others who spent time in the Barrio Bellavista bohemian quarter of Santiago, such as Manfred Max-Neef. Besides Josef Albers, Robert Engman was a huge influence as a teacher and later as a good friend. Norman died 11 November 2018. Carlberg enjoyed a number of exhibitions throughout his career that ranged from one-man shows to group exhibits. A selected list include the following: 1959 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, “Recent Sculpture USA", featured Carlberg's work. 1960 Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile, “LXXI Salon Oficial” 1962 Whitney Museum of American Art, “Whitney Annual” 1966 Baltimore Museum of Art, “Regional Exhibit”; Museum Prize 1974 Carpenter Center, Harvard University, “Art Work by Students of Albers” 1977 Schenectady Museum, “Group Show” 1986 Traveling Exhibition in Italy, “USA-Florence ARToday” 1996 Maryland Art Place, “Retrospective in Parte” 2019 Maryland Institute College of Art, “Retrospective” Carlberg taught briefly (1960–61) in Santiago, Chile at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In 1961, Eugene Leake hired Norman as the Director of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. He taught at MICA until his retirement in 1997.
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