Elen Sofie Elster Christensen

bor ft 1910 Fr. Nansens plass 11 Tromsø som Elen Rosaas m mor & stefar

emigrerte m ektemann 1927

kom tilbake 1933

bor ft 1934 Rønningsbakken 53 Trondheim m datter Vera uten ektemannen

§§ gift 2. gang 27/11-1937 m Bjørn Ivar Sundet Johanessen

§§§ gift 3. gang m Sigurd Bjørnsen

Sculptor who debuted at the Autumn Exhibition in 1936. In 1942 she held her first solo show at Hammerlunds Kunsthandel, Oslo under the title: Sculpture in homes. Her works are mainly in small format in bronze and terracotta with a safe and disciplined sense of form. Children and animals were her preferred models such. Little Adam in polished black syenite (1936), Chair Arrest (bronze, 1950, Christian Kunstforening Permanent Gallery.), Abe with Gingerbread in colored terracotta (exhibited Young Artists Society 1959) and Reindeer olds get horn (exhibited House of Artists, Oslo 1962).

She performed a series of portraits that are characterized by the desire to express the portraitees being and personality through form and line games which we see the bust of director Sigurd Houth (bronze, 1942). She has also performed busts of J.F. Macody Lund (1944) and J.B. Deer.

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