Synnøve Anker Aurdal

Synnøve Anker Aurdal (8 December 1908 – 2 April 2000) was a Norwegian textile artist. She was married to painter and sculptor Ludvig Eikaas (1920–2010) from 1949. She received private schooling in Lillehammer and studied at the State Women's Industrial School (Statens lærerhøgskole i forming) in Oslo from 1932 to 1934.

Career In 1941 Anker Aurdal had her first exhibition in the Oslo Association of Artists. Her works include Flammedans from 1955, Blå rytmer from 1956 and Telegram from 1968. In 1958, she jointly won the competition for the textile decoration of Håkonshallen in Bergen. Her work Høyseteteppet (1958–1961) appears in Håkonshallen together with works by artists Sigrun Berg and Ludvig Eikaas. She represented Norway at the Venice Biennale in 1982.

She was awarded the Jacob-prisen in 1967, and Maihaugenprisen in 1969.