Early Life, Family and Training Valborg Luth was born in 1861 in Oslo, Norway. She grew up in a household shaped by the practicalities of craft and trade, being the daughter of Augusta Blickstad and the bookbinder Carl Herman Luth. Her upbringing in the city provided the foundation for a life dedicated to the visual arts, as she moved from the domestic sphere into the professional circles of the Norwegian art scene. Her formal traini…