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Sep 23, 1897 Christiania, Norway Died on 01 Jan 1986 (aged 88)
Norwegian sculptor
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About Maja Refsum
- Maja Refsum (23 September 1897 – 11 January 1986) was a Norwegian sculptor and teacher.
- She grew up in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.
- She was the daughter of Harald Refsum (1866-1950) and Hanna Ovidia Yssen (1863-1944).
- She was the aunt of Sigrid Christie (1923-2004), who was married to noted antiquarian Håkon Christie.
- She was married to art historian and head of Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage Arne Nygård-Nilssen.
- Their daughter Kirsti (1935-) married Carsten Hopstock.At the State Crafts and Art Industry School (1917-19) she had Lars Utne as a supervisor.
- She further her education at the art academy in Kristiania with Gunnar Utsond (1919-20) and at Bauhaus University in Weimar under Richard Engelmann, director of the Sculpture School (1921-22}.
- She is represented in the National Gallery of Norway with the terracotta sculpture Bruden pyntes.
- Among her most important works is her sculpture of writer Amalie Skram situated at Nordnes in Bergen, Norway.
