Aslaug Blytt

Aslaug Blytt was a Norwegian art historian and museum manager, and politician.

Biography

Blytt was born in Bergen as the daughter of Johan Nicolay Lieske Blytt and Sigrid Hanssen.
She graduated in art history from the University of Oslo in 1935.
She worked 1935–47 as an associate professor at Bergen Cathedral School. In 1947 she moved to Oslo as a museum lecturer at the National Gallery of Norway. In 1950, she moved back to Bergen to be head of the Rasmus Meyer art collection and Bergen Billedgalleri.
She is particularly known for her book about the painter Lars Hertervig.
She was also a politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. After retiring in 1964, she received the King's Medal of Merit in gold.
During the German occupation of Norway she spent about one year incarcerated at the Grini concentration camp.