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New post on Norwegian Exlibris: Questions and Hypotheses. Read the full article on my blog https://exlibris.hypotheses.org/3230. #Exlibris #Bookplate #Norway

Questions and Hypotheses

Questions Abound When you engage in historical research, you have questions. They drive you and fuel your searches, deep dives, and hunts for sources; they also lead you down overgrown or outright hidden paths; and they help keep you on track when you are getting lost in the copious amounts of source materials and information […]

Norwegian Exlibris

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Annika Rockenberger (she/they)1d ago

Ok – I am not only playing around with data, but also with automatic feed from the weblog to Mastodon.
Some tweaking is necessary, but it gets the job done. Nice!
Anyways, enjoy the many short blog posts on #NorwegianExlibris #Bookplate

Annika Rockenberger (she/they)4d ago

📣 Part Six of my 24 Objects Series about the History of the Norwegian Exlibris is now available on my website: https://exlibris.hypotheses.org/1787

🇳🇴 Del seks av min 24 Objekter Serie som en historie om det norske ex libris kan nå leses på nettsiden min (på engelsk).

#NorwegianExlibris #Bookplate #Exhibition #Oslo #Occupation #Norsktut #allheimen

A History of Norwegian Exlibris – Told in 24 Objects. Part 6

Object 12: The Album I think it was at the beginning of 2025 that I came across an odd listing on antikvariat.net. It was an album bound in helsjirting (full cloth binding), with a strange, misspelt title that contained “ex libris”. The sparse description mentioned photographs. I took a leap of faith and purchased it […]

Norwegian Exlibris

Annika Rockenberger (she/they)Feb 12

📣 Endelig ferdig! Min artikkel om #FrøydisHaavardsholm som #Exlibris kunstner.

Kan leses nå på formidlingsplattformen Hypotheses.org https://exlibris.hypotheses.org/2147.

Skrevet på engelsk for å nå en større leserkrets.
Lesetid rundt 14 minutter. Med mange bilder!

#BookIllustration #Bookplate #norskTut #allheimen

Frøydis Haavardsholm

1896–1984 The First Generation of Modern Norwegian Exlibris Artists In 1942, when Otto Wang staged the modern Norwegian exlibris in his seminal book Norsk Ex Libris, his cast was entirely male, with two exceptions: Ingeborg Zimmer Blaauw and Frøydis Haavardsholm. His careful selection of artists and exlibris supports his belief that there is something extraordinary about […]

Norwegian Exlibris

Annika Rockenberger (she/they)Feb 5

Hei again, today, while the sun in shining and the snow is shining, too, and everything feels too bright…

I have finally moved my #Exlibris-related ramblings to a more suitable dissemination outlet on my beloved #HypothesesOrg platform. https://exlibris.hypotheses.org/

Here, I republish all my previous posts and notes, and I will publish all my future work.
The website https://norsk-exlibris.no/ remains, but will get Norwegian content.

Norwegian Exlibris – A Cultural History of the Bookplate in Norway

Annika Rockenberger (she/they)Nov 26

📣 More #ExLibris history from the first half of the 20th century!

Part 5 is published:

https://www.annikarockenberger.com/2025-11-26/exlibris-5/

This time, I take a look at Otto Wang's seminal publication on contemporary Norwegian Exlibris (1942) and a selection of exlibris portfolios by artists #AlbertJærn #HenrySchjærven #KnutYran #TrgyveMDavidsen.

#allheimen #norskTut #bookplate #Norway #BookHistory

A History of Norwegian Exlibris – Told in 24 Objects. Part 5 – Annika Rockenberger

Annika Rockenberger (she/they)Nov 12

Here is part 3 of my blog series about the #NorwegianExlibris. Read it at https://www.annikarockenberger.com/2025-11-12/norwegian-exlibris-3/.

Guaranteed free of #genAI, but full of typos & too long sentences. I will fix the typos & edit the text at my earliest convenience (not tonight).

This time, I dug up a 1940 newspaper article and two special prints of it published in 1941 & 1942, both skilfully manufactured in O. Christiansens boktrykkeri.

#NorskTut #allheimen #bookplate #Norway #Oslo #Morgenposten #bookhistory

A History of Norwegian Exlibris – Told in 24 Objects. Part 3 – Annika Rockenberger

Annika Rockenberger (she/they)Nov 5

After yesterday's fully analogue talk about the History of the Norwegian Exlibris, I started writing a series of blog posts on the subject.
The history is more of a story, the method is auto-ethnographic with a hint of empirical book and printing history.
It's a personal post, so there will be a lot of "me" in it.
Hope you'll enjoy it! Read it on my weblog https://www.annikarockenberger.com/2025-11-05/norwegian-exlibris-1/

Guaranteed free of #genAI – and full of typos... ;)
#ExLibris #Norway #NorskTut #allheimen #BlogPost #Bookplate

A History of Norwegian Exlibris – Told in 24 Objects. Part 1 – Annika Rockenberger

Judah Hansen Oct 12

Some beautiful illustrations from the 1852 book Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art #encyclopedia #oldbook #oldbooks #engraving #engravings #illustration #oldillustrations #oldillustration #vintage #19thcentury #books #1800s #illustrations #heraldry #vintageillustration #bookplate #science

Annika Rockenberger (she/they)Aug 13, 2025

💢 I saw a thing online which somehow infuriated me and I wrote a short post about it: https://norsk-exlibris.no/.

📚 💰 It's not an important topic unless you are extremely interested in Norwegian Exlibris and pricing of antiquarian books on second-hand private sellers' online market places.

As usual, posts on the website norsk-exlibris.no are coded in plain #HTML and are licensed under a CC-BY SA 4.0 license.

#Exlibris #Bookplate #RareBooks #Norway #BookplateSociety #Finn #NorskTut #allheimen