Anna Nordgren

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Anna Christina Nordgren (born on May 13, 1847 in Mariestad ; died on September 10, 1916 in Skara ) was a Swedish painter and draftsman .

Life

Anna Nordgren was born in 1847 in Mariestad, the daughter of the landowner Frans Johan Nordgren and his wife Anna Charlotta, née Lundahl. Her older siblings were brother Frans, born in 1841, and sister, Emelie, born in 1844. The year she was born, the family moved to Åsen near Hjo . Brother Pehr was born in 1848 and sister Bertha in 1850. In 1857 the family moved back to Mariestad and 1861– / 1862 to the Sjögerås estate near Falköping .

Nordgren's artistic talent was noticed at the girls' school in Skara, and her drawing teacher Carlberg teaches her oil painting. In 1865 she began her artistic training at Slöjdskolan Stockholm and was one of the first students in the women's department of the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, where she received lessons from 1867 to 1874 with Professors Carl Gustaf Qvarnström and Johan Christoffer Boklund . During this time she received several awards for her achievements, in 1874 she received an award for the painting Moses utsattes av sin moder Jochebed i vassen ( Moses is abandoned in the reeds by his mother Jochebed ). On the advice of her teacher Boklunds, she went to Paris in 1874 with the painters Amanda Sidwall and Sophie Södergren to continue her education.

In Paris, Nordgren studied at the Académie Julian with Tony Robert-Fleury until 1877 and took lessons at the Académie of Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran . She lived in Paris until 1883, where she was particularly influenced by the painter Jules Bastien-Lepage . Mainly portraits and genre scenes were created . In 1876 two works by Anna Nordgren were shown at the 1876 ​​World's Fair in Philadelphia . In Sweden she showed five works in the art academy in 1877 and King Oskar II acquired the painting Flicka i tågfönster . The painter Marie Bashkirtseff was one of her circle of friends in Paris since 1878 . From 1879 Nordgren exhibited several paintings in the Salon de Paris . In 1884 she stayed in Brittany and created several works there.

Nordgren lived in London from 1885, which she had visited several times in the previous years. In the following years she took part in numerous exhibitions and received a lot of praise from English art critics. She exhibited her works at the Grosvenor Gallery , the Royal Academy of Arts , the Royal Society of British Artists , the New Gallery , the Society of Lady Artists , the Royal Institute of Oil Painters , the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors , at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters , the Pastel Society, and the Grafton Galleries . Nordgren had solo exhibitions at London's Clifford Gallery in 1894 and 1897. She also showed her work in Glasgow , Liverpool and Birmingham . During a stay in St Ives in Cornwall , the painting Fiskare från Cornwall ( Fishermen from Cornwall ) was created, which Nordgren showed at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, where it received an honorable mention. Her friends in London included the Irish painter Sarah Purser and the American artist James McNeill Whistler . Constance Gore-Booth became her pupil with whom she visited Ireland in 1892 and painted there together.

Nordgren returned to Sweden in 1899, but continued to exhibit in London until 1902. She had visited her homeland regularly in the past few years and showed her works there in exhibitions. In 1904, works by Nordgren were shown at the World's Fair in St. Louis . In Sweden she lived first in Gothenburg , from 1908 in Drottningholm , from 1909 in Stockholm and from 1913 in Skara, where she died in 1916 at the age of 69. Nordgren never married and remained childless.

Nordgren's work is primarily influenced by academic realism in France of the 1870s and 1880s, as shown at the Salon de Paris. She mostly created dark works in oil, as watercolor and pastel. Her genre pictures with interior scenes repeatedly depict the life of the poorer sections of the population. In addition, she painted portraits, landscapes and religious motifs. Nordgren showed little interest in new painting styles such as impressionism and subsequent art movements. The romantic motifs of Nordic painting, such as those found in the work of the Swedish painters Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn , also had no influence on Nordgren's work.

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SURNAME Nordgren, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nordgren, Anna Christina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariestad
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1916
Place of death Skara