Maja Refsum was a Norwegian sculptor and teacher. Daughter of Harald Refsum (1866-1950) and Hanna Ovidia Yssen (1863-1944). Among her most important works is her sculpture of writer Amalie Skram

Amalie Skram

Amalie Skram was a Norwegian author and feminist who gave voice to a woman's point of view with her naturalist writing. She moved to Denmark in 1894 where she settled in Copenhagen with her husband, the Danish writer Erik Skram...

. She is represented in the National Gallery of Norway

National Gallery of Norway

The National Gallery of Norway is a gallery in Oslo, Norway. Since 2003 it is administratively a part of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.-History:...

 with the terracotta sculpture Bruden pyntes. She was married to art historian and head of Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage

Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage

The Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage is a government agency responsible for the management of cultural heritage in Norway. Subordinate the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment, it manages the Cultural Heritage Act of June 9, 1978....

 Arne Nygård-Nilssen

Arne Nygård-Nilssen

Arne Nygård-Nilssen was a Norwegian art historian, publicist and magazine editor. -Biography:Nygård-Nilssen grew up in Bergen, Norway where his father was a school teacher. He attended the University of Oslo . At the University he came under the influence of Anders Bugge , a prominent professor...

. Their daughter Kirsti (1935-) married Carsten Hopstock

Carsten Hopstock

Carsten Henrik Hopstock is a Norwegian curator and historian.He was born in Kragerø as a son of pharmacist Frantz Philip Hopstock and Lilly Haanshus . He graduated from the University of Oslo with the mag.art. degree in 1953, majoring in art history and minoring in history and archaeology...

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