My Faroe-Stamp’s collection

Arts & Artists

Janus KAMBAN

Janus Kamban was born in 1913, and studied in Denmark at the Academy of Art and Sculpture of Copenhagen with Prof. E. Utzon-Frank. He came back to Tornshavn after the end of the II World War and settled there for good. Kamban’s art is characterized by simple and unadorned figures.  His series on sheep and whales are famous, as well as his portrait of the poet H.A. Djurhuus and the Dancers. The sculptures are mainly exposed in the Art Museum of Tornshavn and in many city offices in the cities of the archipelago.

Kamban’s major themes are the sea, the birds and the life on the coast.

He received many important acknowledgements, and in 1995, there had been a big retrospective in Torshavn, both about Kamban’s graphic art and sculpture.