Amalia Lindegren

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Amalia Lindegren

Amalia Lindegren (born May 22, 1814 in Stockholm , † December 27, 1891 ibid) was a Swedish genre and portrait painter and from 1856 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art .

Life

She lost her mother when she was three years old and was adopted by her alleged father's widow. Her drawings prompted Carl Gustaf Qvarnström to accept her as one of four women in 1849 as a student at the art academy in her hometown. So promising was Amalia Lindegren's development that in 1850 she became the first Swedish artist to receive a travel grant. She then studied in Düsseldorf at the art academy , in Paris with Léon Cogniet and Jean-Baptiste-Ange Tissier . She traveled to Munich . and Rome . In 1855 and 1856 she lived again in Paris. Upon her return, she was elected a member of the Art Academy. She was a member of the Association of Women Artists in London .

Amalie Lindegren designed portraits , genre panels and scenes from the life of the common people. She was inspired by Adolph Tidemand , Hans Fredrik Gude and Per Nordberg as well as by the German style . As a portrait painter, she was praised for her powers of observation. Her paintings from Dalarna Province , often depicting lovely but worried girls, were very popular. Her painting Lillan's sista bädd was exhibited in Paris in 1867, in Philadelphia in 1876 and in Chicago in 1893 .

Works (selection)

  • Lillan's sista bädd (1858)

literature

  • Lindegren, Amalia . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 337. Digitized .
  • Österberg, Carin et al., Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare . Lund: Signum 1990. ISBN 91-87896-03-6

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personal data
SURNAME Lindegren, Amalia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1891
Place of death Stockholm