Maja Refsum

[2] [3] She was married to art historian and head of Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage Arne Nygård-Nilssen.

[6] At the State Crafts and Art Industry School (1917–19) she had Lars Utne as a supervisor.

She furthered 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).

[7] 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.