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Vik, Ingebrigt
(b Øystese, Hardanger, 5 March 1867; d Øystese, 23 March 1927). Norwegian sculptor. He began carving wood as a child at his father’s furniture workshop in Hardanger. Around 1881 he was apprenticed to the wood-carver Sjur Utne in Hardanger and in 1882–4 to the carver Hans J. Johannessen (1851–1932) in Bergen. At the same time Vik attended evening classes at the technical school. For the next two years he worked with the carver Sophus Petersen (c. 1837–1904) in Copenhagen, where he entered the Kunstakademi in 1885. From 1888 to 1892 he worked again in Copenhagen, where he assisted the sculptor Hans Christian Petersen (1835–1919), resuming his studies at the Kunstakademi in 1889. Back in Bergen, Vik established himself as an independent carver, making ivory reliefs and modelling small terracotta figures in a naturalistic style. After a visit to the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 he modelled the bronze Worker (1901; Bergen, Billedgal.), which reveals the influence of Constantin Meunier.
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