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Halvard Storm (August 10, 1877 - May 7, 1964) was a 20th-century Norwegian artist.

Biography

Storm was born in Kristiania (Oslo) to professor Johan Storm and Louise Bruun and was christened on September 2, 1877.^[1] He immigrated to the United States in 1901 and lived in the vibrant Norwegian-American enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York.^[2] He married Martha Louise Trilseth (born May 29, 1877, Eidsvoll, Norway) on February 10, 1906, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Brooklyn.^[3] Storm registered for the US World War I draft in September 1918 as all eligible men were required to register regardless of citizenship.^[4] In the 1920s, he returned to Norway to live, but he traveled to the United States many times during subsequent decades.^[5] Storm's wife died on August 28, 1941, and he later married Sigrid Roscher (1888-1964).

Storm died on May 7, 1964, and is buried alongside his parents, three brothers, an