Frida Zachariassen
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Frida Zachariassen (September 24, 1912 – April 27, 1992) was a Faroese painter and writer. She is considered one of the Faroe Islands' most distinctive midcentury artists.[1]
Frida was born in 1912 in Klaksvík, a town in the Faroe Islands.[2][3] She was one of nine children born to Magdalena Jacobsen and Jógvan Rasmussen, who was the leading figure in the town at the time.[1]
After finishing school, she traveled to Denmark, where she lived for six years and began to take painting classes.[3] While she qualified to attend the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, she felt it would not be a prudent financial decision, and she studied business instead.[1] After further travels in England, she returned to the Faroe Islands just before World War II and got an office job at the shipping company J. F. Kjølbro in her hometown.[1][3]
While she married Guttormur Zachariassen in 1944, he died in a wreck less than a year later. She lived in Copenhagen again for a few years in the late 1940s before returning to Klaksvík for good, taking a job overseeing the region's health insurance program while continuing to paint.[1][4]
