Þorbjörg Guðrún Pálsdóttir (10 February 1919,

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– 11 November 2009, Reykjavík) was an

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ic sculptor. She is perhaps best known for her four green alien-like public statues ''Dansleikur/Dance'' in

, which she completed in 1970, and which is located on Perlan, the highest hill in the city. Other works of note include ''Par'' (1994) and ''Boy and Girl'' (1968), located at Tjörnin. She was a member of the Icelandic Sculptors Society, which she established in the Icelandic capital in 1972 along with Hallsteinn Sigurðsson, Jon Gunnar Árnason, Ragnar Kjartansson and others. The daughter of Pál Ólafsson and Hilda Stefánsdóttir, she married physician Andrés Ásmundsson (1916–2006) on 6 August 1942. They had five children and two adopted children, 18 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. She attended the Commercial College of Iceland and studied photography at Reykjavík Technical College and also studied in

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. Works by Þorbjörg are owned by various institutions, including the Icelandic National Gallery and

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. She died in 2009, aged 90.

Sources

* Leifur Þorsteinsson, Ernir Snorrason, and Jóhann Eyfells. ''Þorbjörg Pálsdóttir myndhöggvari''. Reykjavík: Listhüs, 1983. OCLC 63345079

References

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