Ada Madssen
Illustration — Ada Madssen with the Queen Maud monument, 1956.jpg Ada Madssen (9 February 1917 – 22 September 2009) was a Norwegian sculptor. She was born in Kristiania. She studied under Wilhelm Rasmussen and Axel Revold at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1938 to 1940.
Ada Madssen
Rigmor Dahl Delphin · Oslo Museum: image no. OB.RD2108a (Byhistorisk samling), via oslobilder.no. · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Born
- 1917 · Oslo.
- Died
- 2009
- Nationality
- Norway
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Education
- Oslo National Academy of the Arts
- Honours
- Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav
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Illustration — Ada Madssen with the Queen Maud monument, 1956.jpg Ada Madssen (9 February 1917 – 22 September 2009) was a Norwegian sculptor. She was born in Kristiania. She studied under Wilhelm Rasmussen and Axel Revold at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1938 to 1940.
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The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design owns three of her works, and she is also known for statues of Queen Maud near the Royal Palace, Oslo (erected 1959) and Camilla Collett at Eidsvoll (erected 1977). In 2007 she was decorated as a Knight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
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1917
Ada Madssen was born in 1917 at Oslo.
2009
Ada Madssen died in 2009.
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Ada Madssen is recorded as having received Knight First Class of the Order of St.
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