Per Ung

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::summary Norwegian sculptor and graphic artist ::

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name	Per Ung
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birth_place	Oslo, Norway
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death_place	Oslo, Norway
nationality	Norwegian
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occupation	Sculptor
father	Per Ohlsen
mother	and Randi Tangen
awards	Order of St. Olav (2007)
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Per Ung (5 June 1933 – 20 June 2013) was a Norwegian sculptor and graphic artist.

Biography

Ung was born in Oslo, Norway. He was the son of Per Ohlsen (1907–85) and Randi Tangen (1905-89). He was schooled in the conservative sculptural tradition but gradually distanced himself from formal and substantive traditionalism. 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. He became a student of Anthony Caro (1924–2013) at St. Martin's School of Art in London in 1960.

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. 1959), located on Johanne Dybwads plass outside the National Theatre in Oslo. His monument of figure skater Sonja Henie ( (bronze. 1985) is located at Frogner stadion. His statue of Nobel Prize laureate Fridtjof Nansen (bronze. 1993) is placed outside the Fram building at Bygdøy. A monument of the composer Johan Halvorsen (bronze. 2002) is placed outside the National Theatre in Oslo.

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 granted the A. C. Houens legat in 1953, Conrad Mohrs legat in 1958 and 1964, Moltzaus legat in 1957 and Lorch-Schives legat in 1960. He received the Ingeborg og Per Palle Storms ærespris in 1995. In 2007, he was appointed Knight 1st Class in the Order of St. Olav.

Personal life

He was married in 1953 to Valerie Lyndall Dick, marriage dissolved 1987. He was married in 1987 with sculptor Elena Engelsen-Wisse, daughter of woodcarver and illustrator Henning Engelsen (1918–2005). Per Ung died of cancer in Oslo during 2013 at the age of 80.

Selected works

• Korsfestet (bronze. 1970) Tasta Church, Stavanger
• Kvinne og måker (bronze. 1974) Etterstad videregående skole, Oslo
• Eros og Psyke (bronze. 1982) Veterinærhøgskolen, Oslo
• Fiskerkone (bronze. 1999) Svolvær
• Otto Sverdrup (bronze. 1999) Sandvika, Bærum
• Fru Fortuna (bronze. 2005) Europarådets plass, Oslo

References

References

1. Erik Mørstad. "Per Ung". Norsk kunstnerleksikon.
2. "Per Palle Storm". lokalhistoriewiki.no.
3. (2007). "Per Ung". Kunnskapsforlaget.
4. Kokkin, Jan. (2005). "Per Ung". Kunnskapsforlaget.
5. (21 June 2013). "Norges fremste billedhugger er død". Aftenposten.

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