Background
Hammer, Trygve was born on September 6, 1878 in Arendal, Norway. Son of Christopher Natvig and Caroline (Dreyer) Hammer.
Hammer, Trygve was born on September 6, 1878 in Arendal, Norway. Son of Christopher Natvig and Caroline (Dreyer) Hammer.
Student Royal Arts Trade School, Oslo, Norway, 1895-1898, Art Students League, National Academy of Design and Beaux-Arts School of Sculpture, 1906-1913.
Interior designer and decorator, 1903-1916, sculptor and designer since 1916, with Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation, East. Newark, New Jersey Works: Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, Tenafly, New Jersey. War Memorial Window, Crescent Athletic Club, Brooklyn. Benson Memorial, Zion Norwegian Church, Brooklyn.
Heroic size busts of Roald Amundsen and Henrik Ibsen.
Humphrless bronze memorial, Stevens Institute, Haboken, New Jersey. Scofield Memorial, American Scandinavian Foundation, New New York
Trophy Room, Princeton University. Norse grill room, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria.
Collaborator on sculpture for the John Philip Sousa Memorial, Washington, District of Columbia.
Bishop Otto Fabricius Memorial Tablet in bronze for Greenland. Work reptd. in Brooklyn Museum, Newark Museum, Brookgreen Gardens open-air sculpture collection of Mr. and Mistress Huntington, South Carolina. Painted decorations in the Waldorf Savarin, New New York
Murals in the Hotel Ambassador, Washington.
District of Columbia Home: 67 Jane Saint, New York, New New York
Married Emma Tronboll, June 15, 1905. Children: Agnes Gudrun (Mistress John Jay Clutz), Olaf Trygveson, Came to the United States, 1903, naturalized, 1913.