Aase Texmon Rygh
Aase Texmon Rygh, born April 13, 1925 in Troms County, Norway, is a Norwegian modernist sculptor.
Aase Texmon Rygh has her education from the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry 1944-46, and training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen for Einar Utzon-Frank 1948-49, and a trip to Paris in 1950 was important for the direction her artistic activities .
Aase Texmon Rygh has throughout his artistic activity remained at a simple and abstract sculptural expression. In Paris she became inspired by both European modernism and the simple ancient Greek sculptures in the Louvre.
Aase Texmon Rygh is known for what is called her Möbius - sculptures, a series of sculptures based on the mathematical möbius as the German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868) had developed[1]. In 2001, Aase Texmon Rygh became a knight of 1 Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav[2].
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Public art
- Spiral II, bronze plaque, 1952 in Tønsberg
- Bjørn Farmann monument, bronze plaque, 1971 in Tønsberg
- Løk (Onions), 1977, Norges landbrukshøgskole
- Volta, in 1978, Furuset Senter, Oslo
- Brutt form (Broken terms), 1983, Furuset Senter, Oslo
- Möbius triple, at Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo