Anna Nordlander

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Anna Catharina Nordlander (born March 26, 1843 in Skellefteå ; died April 28, 1879 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish painter .

Life

Anna Nordlander was born in 1843 to Nils Nordlander and his wife Anna Maria, née Gestrin, in Skellefteå in northern Sweden. She was the youngest of six children. Her father is considered to be the founder of her hometown and worked there as a pastor. The maternal grandfather was also a pastor. A governess taught Anna Nordlander and her five siblings in the parish parsonage. The father was active as a hobby painter and probably promoted his daughter's artistic talents. In 1850 the painter Johan Fredrik Höckert visited the home of the Nordlander family during his trip to Lapland . He is considered the first important painter to depict the landscape of Lapland and the folk life of the Sami . Anna Nordlander was probably Höckert's private student in 1863. In 1864 and 1865 she gave drawing lessons at the school in Skellefteå.

Anna Nordlander studied in Stockholm first at the Slöjdskolan Art School (today Konstfack ) before she attended the women's class of the Kungliga Konsthögskolan from 1866–1872 . Along with Amanda Sidwall , Christine Sundberg , Anna Nordgren , Sophie Södergren and Mimmi Zetterström, she was one of the first women to study there. Nordlander's teachers included the genre painter August Malmström and the history painter Johan Christoffer Boklund . During her studies she received the Tessinska Medal for her work in 1869.

In 1873 Nordlander continued her studies abroad. First she stayed in Brussels , where she took lessons from the painter Jean-François Portaels and copied works by Peter Paul Rubens in the Museum of Fine Arts . Then she went to Paris with artist colleague Kerstin Cardon and studied at the Académie Julian with Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury . In Paris she met the Swedish painter Alfred Wahlberg , whose open-air painting she admired.

From 1875, Nordlander lived with her mother in Stockholm and moved into her own studio there. Here she received various portrait commissions and repeatedly showed works in the Stockholmer Kunstverein ( Stockholms konstförening ) and in the exhibitions of the art academy ( Konstakademien ). In addition, she often visited her hometown Skellefteå. She was the first artist to portray the life of the northern Sami . In addition to landscapes from Lapland, she also portrayed Sami folk types in her paintings and painted motifs from Nordic history and mythology.

Anna Nordlander died in Stockholm in 1879 at the age of 35. Her art went largely unnoticed for many decades. It was not until the 1990s that the artist was rediscovered . In this context, the Anna Nordlander museum in Skellefteå, dedicated to her, was founded in 1995 , which shows more than 40 of her works and temporary exhibitions. Further works can be found in the National Museum in Stockholm , for example . In memory of the artist, the Anna Nordlander Museum awards the Anna Nordlander Prize every two years.

  • Anna Nordlander: Flicka i historisk dräkt

  • Anna Nordlander: Träd

  • Anna Nordlander: Två skidåkande lappar

  • Anna Nordlander: Vid hängvaggan

  • Anna Nordlander: Norrländskt vinterlandskap

literature

  • Barbro Werkmäster (Ed.): Anna Nordlander och hennes samtid . Kulturnämnden, Skellefteå 1993, ISBN 91-86072-18-8 .

Web links

Commons : Anna Nordlander  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgitta Flensburg: Anna Nordlander in the Svenskt Kvinnobiografiskt Lexikon
  2. ↑ Works in the National Museum Stockholm
personal data
SURNAME Nordlander, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nordlander, Anna Catharina (Full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Skellefteå
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1879
Place of death Stockholm