GERDA THUNE ANDERSEN, bronze sculpture.

Signed G.T.A. and dated -68.
Height 16 cm

Gerda Sophie Thune Andersen (born 29 August 1932 in Hellerup, Denmark) is a Danish-Swedish sculptor.

She is the daughter of chief physician Troels Thune Andersen and Karen Bergtrup Christiansen and from 1958 married to huntsman Nils Wiljelm Hammer Kjølsen. She studied with Gottfred Eickhoff, Johannes Bjerg and Einar Utzon-Frank at Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademie in Copenhagen from 1954 to 1959, and was for a period in 1956 a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She was awarded a scholarship from the Carlsberg Foundation in 1958 and the Danish Academy of Fine Arts Gold Medal in 1959, as well as the Niels Prize award in 2014. Since the mid-1950s she participated in most of the spring exhibitions at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen and from 1965 with Skånes kunstforening. Among her public works are the bronze sculptures Tine at Ängelholm Hospital, Legende barn in Bromölla and a memorial relief of Niels Egede in Egedeminde, Greenland, as well as a ceramic relief in Rønne on Bornholm. In the mid-1960s she settled in Skåne where she built her own studio and in the early 1990s she moved to Africa where she periodically resided in Mozambique, Laos and Kenya since 2011 she has been active in Cairo. Her art consists of reliefs, figures and portraits executed in plaster, wood, stone or bronze.

Gerda Thune Andersen is represented at the Kristianstad Regional Museum, Statens Museum for Kunst and Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, among others.