1958), and daughter Susanna Hesselberg (b. He was married several times and had three children: daughter Anne Karin Hesselberg (b. Subsequently, he sold his ship and lived in the United States, Germany, and Sweden, until his final return in 1969–1970 to Larvik. Among his friends were Pablo Picasso, Georges Simenon, Jean Cocteau, and Carl Nesjar.
Later he built and lived on his own ship sailing for 11 years to in such places as Côte d'Azur, Corsica and Italy, while working as a sculptor and painter. 1949) The book has since been translated into a number of languages including English. Also, he drew sketches, took photographs, carved wooden statuettes, and played guitar.Īfter the expedition, Hesselberg wrote and illustrated his only book Kon-Tiki og Jeg (Dreyers Vorlag. He painted the large Kon-Tiki figure on the raft's main sail. During the trip, he worked as an astronavigator and cartographer as he was the only professional sailor. Thor Heyerdahl approached him and invited to become a navigator on the Kon-Tiki expedition. In 1947, Hesselberg lived in the village of Borre and worked as a painter. In 1945, he and his German-born wife, Liselotte (Liss) Güldner, relocated to Lillehammer, Norway.
He stayed in Germany when World War II began, so he could not return to Norway and started working as a decorator in Braunschweig. Later Hesselberg studied art in Hamburg, Germany.
Having graduated from his secondary school, Erik Hesselberg went on to a sailors' school and later worked as a professional sailor for five years, making several trips around the world. He knew Thor Heyerdahl from his childhood years. Erik Hesseberg's sextant from the Kon-Tiki expedition Biography Įrik Hesselberg was born at Brevik in Telemark, Norway.
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