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Aase Texmon Rygh, born April 13, 1925, in Troms County, Norway, is a Norwegian modernist sculptor.
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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 her creative life created simple and abstract sculptural expression. In Paris she was inspired by both European modernism and 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 strip as the German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868) had developed.
Aase Texmon Rygh has from 1950 held several exhibitions in Norway and a retrospective exhibition at the Henie-Onstad Art Centre in 1992. She has had solo works and participated in group exhibitions in Oslo, Bergen, Antwerp and Sao Paulo.
In 2001, Aase Texmon Rygh became a knight of 1 Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.