Background
Siggen Stinessen was born on August 22, 1942, in Oslo, Norway.
the Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Siggen Stinessen was born on August 22, 1942, in Oslo, Norway.
Siggen Stinessen earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 from the Department of Furniture and Interior Design of the Royal College of Art in Oslo (now the Oslo National Academy of the Arts).
Siggen Stinessen has been freelancing since 1975; from 1974 to 1978 he worked at the Halogaland Theater in Tromso, Norway. Working in a subjective documentary style and using both small and large format, the artist chooses subject matter ranging from landscape and portraits to architecture.