Per Ung

He received his sculptor education under the influential of Per Palle Storm (1910–1994) at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1952-55.

[2] Ung made a number of public portrait statues and monuments, most of them on private assignments.

His first large public commission was the statue of actress Johanne Dybwad (bronze.

[3][4] Ung was member and served as chairman of the Norwegian Association of Sculptors (Norsk Billedhuggerforening), was a member of the Young Artists Society (Unge Kunstneres Samfund) and served on the Board of Supervisors of Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo from 1967-69.

He was married in 1987 with sculptor Elena Engelsen-Wisse, daughter of woodcarver and illustrator Henning Engelsen (1918–2005).

Johanne Dybwads plass. Per Ung's statue can be seen to the far left.