Jette Thyssen

Jette Thyssen (born 1933) is a Danish textile artist, painter and lithographer who produces brightly coloured, geometrically patterned compositions.

During the German occupation in the Second World War, the family took care of resistance workers and Jews, including the weaver Ruth Malinowski who introduced her to textile art.

After graduating in 1950, she spent a year as an au pair in England before entered Copenhagen's Arts and Crafts School where she was taught by the Swedish textile artist Gunilla Lagerbielke.

[3][5] On receiving her diploma in 1954, she spent six months in Italy where she was inspired by an American-Indian almost geometrically patterned carpet in painted leather at the Ethnographic Museum.

The work in black, white and red was in the simple style which became characteristic of her later compositions, all created in bright, vivid colours.