| Aase Texmon Rygh | |
| Birth Date: | 13 April 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Troms County, Norway |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Education: | Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry 1944-46 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1948-49 |
| Notable Works: | Möbius |
| Style: | Modernism |
Aase Texmon Rygh, (April 13, 1925 – May 21, 2019) was a Norwegian sculptor working in the modernist style.
Aase Texmon Rygh was born in Troms County, Norway. She studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1944 until 1946. Two years later, she studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, under Einar Utzon-Frank, for one year. In 1950, she visited Paris, where she visited the Louvre. The visit would be pivotal in shaping her career as a professional artist.
Texmon Rygh primarily exhibited in Norway, with a retrospective exhibition at the Henie-Onstad Art Centre in 1992. She has had solo works and participated in group exhibitions in Oslo, Bergen, Antwerp and Sao Paulo.
The Möbius series were Texmon Rygh's signature works. They are sculptures based on the mathematical Möbius strip as the German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius developed.[1]
In 2001, Aase Texmon Rygh became a knight of 1 Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.[2]
Texmon Rygh died May, 2019.