Anna Boberg was of an artistic family, but never received any formal training in the arts, and is considered an autodidact. Many of her paintings are of northern Norway, which became Boberg’s main focus for many years after a trip there in 1901. These works were not received very well in Sweden, but did much… Continue reading Anna Boberg
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Amalia Lindegren
Amalia Lindegren displayed an early talent, making and selling drawings in the manner of Maria Röhl: she started to paint in oil in 1839, became a student of Sofia Adlersparre in 1842, and participated in her first exhibition the following year … read more about Amalia Lindegren at The Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women (SKBL)!… Continue reading Amalia Lindegren
Anna Gardell-Ericson
At the age of sixteen, Anna Gardell-Ericson began painting and displayed sufficient talent for her to be sent to Switzerland to begin her studies. Later, she studied with Per Daniel Holm at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm; making her début at one of the Academy’s exhibitions in 1875. The following year,… Continue reading Anna Gardell-Ericson
Jenny Nyström
Jenny Nyström studied at the Kjellbergska flickskolan. In 1865 she started in the Gothenburg art school Göteborgs Musei-, Rit- och Målarskola, today known as Konsthögskolan Valand, and in 1873 she was admitted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where she studied for eight years. Thanks to a scholarship, this was followed by… Continue reading Jenny Nyström
Gustaf Cederström
Gustaf Cederström father, Carl Emanuel Cederström (1804-1892) was a naval officer and his mother, Theresine (1815-1873), was an amateur painter. His interest in history began when he was still very young and he discovered that one of his ancestors had participated in the Skirmish at Bender … read more about Gustaf Cederström at Wikipedia! Narva… Continue reading Gustaf Cederström
Pehr Arvid Säve
Pehr Arvid Säve was born in Roma the son of the provost there, Pehr Säve and his wife Hedvig Lallerius. Säve started out as a teacher in Visby 1835–57, and he soon became a pioneer for the Gotlandic cultural history … read more about Pehr Arvid Säve at Wikipedia! Wisborg castle 1858 – Public Domain
John Bauer
John Bauer was born and raised in Jönköping. At 16 he moved to Stockholm to study at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. While there he received his first commissions to illustrate stories in books and magazines, and met the artist Ester Ellqvist, whom he married in 1906 … read more about John Bauer at… Continue reading John Bauer
The kitchen hut
The »kitchen hut» köksskålen, is intended for the making of cheese and butter. It is shaped like a cone and erected of numerous round poles around a skeleton of some twelve special main poles, the tops of which are bound together by an osier4ie. The lowest third of the hut is externally covered with spruce*bark,… Continue reading The kitchen hut
The summer-seat or somerset
The »somerset» or »somerseat», known in Swedish as the fäbodvall, is a sort of summer residence in the wood land, temporarily occupied for cattle grazing. Agriculture, though practised on a small scale, was originally of only inferior importance there; and the cultivated ground was not in the first place used for production of fodder for… Continue reading The summer-seat or somerset