Background
Jákup Pauli was born in 1932 to the fashion designer Liffa Gregoriussen (née Arge) and the sailor Magnus Gregoriussen.
Jákup Pauli was born in 1932 to the fashion designer Liffa Gregoriussen (née Arge) and the sailor Magnus Gregoriussen.
He was educated at the architectural school of the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen.
He is also a graphic artist and author of publications about the Faroese church. Among his best-known buildings are the Listasavn Føroya (1970) and its extension to become the National Art Museum in 1993. As a graphic artist, he designed stamps for the Postverk Føroya and illustrated books
His main themes are views of towns and villages, not only in the Faroes but also from his travels, including, amongst others, Russia, Poland, Rome, and Egypt.
In 1998, he was awarded the Faroese Prize (M A Jacobsens Heiðursløn) for his four volume work about the Faroese churches (1995–1999). Gregoriussen is an important advisor on the restoration of Faroese churches.
1979: Faroese National Library Broadcasting building in Útvarp Føroya Pharmacy in Klaksvík New savings bank in Tórshavn 1995: Listasavn Føroya The stamps he drew for the Postverk Føroya are representative of Gregoriussen"s graphical artwork. Old farmhouses, February 9, 1987, engraved by Czesław Słania (series of 4 stamps) Old houses in Norðragøta, October 5, 1992 (series of 4 stamps) Suðuroy, January 26, 2004 (miniature sheet of 10 stamps) Christmas stamps, September 20, 2004.
They depict the largest churches of the Suðuroy island, in Vágur and Tvøroyri.
Velbastað: Forlagið í Støplum, 2000. (104 p, drawings from Tórshavn, including 85 coloured drawings, 2nd volume Summary in Danish and English) Velbastað: Forlagið í Støplum, 2002. (112 p, "Über die Prachtbauten der Welt") (In German) Copenhagen: Arkitektens Forlag, 1996.
(166 p, Danish and English).
lieutenant is his bibliophilic masterpiece, luxuriously illustrated and informative about the Faroese churches and the history of the Faroe Islands from a regional point of view.