Amanda Sidwall

Amanda Sidvall: Self-Portrait , 1870–1871

Amanda Carolina Vilhelmina Sidwall , also Sidvall (born July 25, 1844 in Stockholm ; died January 11, 1892 in Stockholm), was a Swedish painter and graphic artist.

Hjärtetjuven , 1884

Life

Amanda Sidwall was the daughter of entrepreneur Sven Lorentz Sidwall and his wife Fredrika Christina. After finishing school, she and her sister Mathilda received drawing lessons from 1860 to 1865 at the Slöjdskolan Art School (now Konstfack ) in Stockholm. When the Kungliga Konsthögskolan introduced a class for women in 1864, Sidwall was one of the first 18 students, along with Mimmi Zetterström , Christine Sundberg , Anna Nordgren , Sophie Södergren and Anna Nordlander . Her teachers included Johan Christoffer Boklund , Carl Gustaf Qvarnström and Johan Fredrik Höckert . Before completing her studies in 1871, she attended another class at the Slöjdskolan for the last year of study.

In 1874 she went to Paris with Sophie Södergren and Anna Nordgren to continue her education. Sidwall shared a studio with Södergren and attended the Académie Julian with Nordgren , where they received lessons from Tony Robert-Fleury . Sidwall spent the summer of 1875 in Villerville on the Normandy coast . The following year she visited Stockholm. In 1879 she moved into her own studio in Paris. She continued to occasionally attend the Académie Julian, where she also worked as an assistant teacher. She also taught privately the painter Mina Carlson-Bredberg .

In Paris, Sidwall's style of painting developed from an academy-oriented style to a much freer painting. She used an intense color palette and worked with broad brushstrokes. One of her well-known paintings is the genre painting Lecture intéressante ( Högläsning ) from 1877 , in which she shows a little girl reading to an older man. In 1880 she first exhibited in the Salon de Paris . There she showed the painting La première lecon ( Den första läxan ) in 1882 and La fete de la grande mère ( Mormors Högtidsdag ) the following year . She received good reviews for her work. As an established artist, she was able to sell her works both in France and to Swedish customers.

Sidwall returned to Stockholm in the summer of 1883. At first she had planned to live in Sweden and France every six months, but the center of her life remained in Stockholm. Here she received her students first in their parents' house, then in the rooms of the painter Emma Ekwall , before she was finally able to rent her own studio. In Sweden, Sidwall mainly painted genre pictures and portraits. Family members were often the model here, for example in the portrait of the parents Portraitt av föräldrarna from 1890. She also painted some self-portraits and motifs in the Impressionist style, such as the child portrait Hjärtetjuven from 1884.

Amanda Sidwall remained unmarried. She and her mother contracted influenza in the winter of 1891–1892 , from which both died. They were buried together on Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm. Works by Amanda Sidwall can be found in the National Museum in Stockholm, the Länsmuseet Gävleborg in Gävle , the Malmö konstmuseum and the Eskilstuna konstmuseum .

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Sidwall, Amanda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sidwall, Amanda Carolina Vilhelmina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 25, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH	January 11, 1892
Place of death	Stockholm

[1] Konstnärslexikonett Amanda

[2] Information on the painting Still Life by Amanda Sidwall in the Länsmuseet Gävleborg

[3] Information on the painting Hjärtetjuven by Amanda Sidwall in the Malmö Konstmuseum

[4] Short biography and information on the painting Flickportraitt in the Eskilstuna konstmuseum