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Director Torfi Hjartarson (1902 - 1996)
Torfi Hjartarson enjoyed a long and significant career as a public official. After completing his lawyer's degree at the University of Iceland in 1930 he studied for a year in London. In 1932 he was appointed Sheriff of the Ísafjörður district in the West Fjords where he stayed until 1943, when he became Director of Customs and Excise in Reykjavík, which position he occupied until 1972. Among the many official responsibilities that Hjartarson took on, the most contentious and arduous was undoubtedly the position of State Mediator, placing him in the thick of all labour disputes that occurred in Iceland from 1945 to 1979. This was Sigurjón Ólafsson's last portrait. Sculptor Sigurjón Ólafsson and his Portraits Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum 2008, ISBN 978-87-88755-05-03 |