Lars Hertervig was born in 1830 at Borgøy, in the municipality Tysvær in Norway, from which the family name derives, on the west coast of Norway, north of Stavanger.
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Jon Fosse created an homage to Hertervig with his 1995 novel Melancholia I, and also wrote the libretto for Georg Friedrich Haas's opera adaptation Melancholia which premiered at the Opera Garnier in Paris on 9 June 2008 on stage by Stanislas Nordey (Lawrence Olivier Award 2008 for a new opera) and costumes of Raoul Fernandez.
Lars von Trier | Lars Ulrich | MC Lars | Lars Forssell | Lars Danielsson | Lars Saabye Christensen | Lars Løkke Rasmussen | Lars Levi Laestadius | Lars Bystøl | Lars Onsager | Lars Winnerbäck | Lars Petrus | Lars-Olof Mattsson | Lars Norén | Lars Lindberg Christensen | Lars Lilholt | Lars Leksell | Lars Larson | Lars Knutzon | Lars Jonson Haukaness | Lars Hirschfeld | Lars Gullin | Lars Frölander | Lars Werner | Lars Tolumnius | Lars Schneider | Lars Porsena | Lars Olausson | Lars Oftedal Broch | Lars Nielsen |
Among his works are Slekten Knagenhjelm og Kaupanger from 1960, and biographies of Lars Hertervig and Inger Sitter.