Hannah Ryggen
[4] Hannah Ryggen was a pacifist who subscribed to Scandinavian feminist and leftist journals, and was active in the Norwegian Communist Party and international workers' movements.According to curator Marta Kuzma, although Ryggen "shared and affinity with Käthe Kollwitz, who also selected as her narrative the social, spiritual, and political disorder of her time, Ryggen bypassed Kollwitz's tendency to draft allegorical figures (such as Black Anna) and instead identified historical individuals who forged, installed, and enabled the totalitarian regime in those years – Mussolini, Hitler, Göring, Quisling, Churchill, and the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun.[6][7] Etiopia was also shown in 1939 at the New York World's Fair, but there was a cloth covering the part of the scene with a spear piercing through Mussolini's head.Following the formal traditions of 17th and 18th century Norwegian folk textile arts, her works combine figurative and abstract elements.Twenty eight of her works were shown in a solo show at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1962, and she was the first female Norwegian artist to be represented at the Venice Biennale, in 1964.