Emma Gylden

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Emma Gyldén , from 1870 Emma von Schantz (born April 17, 1835 in Helsinki ; † July 18, 1874 there ), was a Finnish landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

River landscape near Pori , 1865, Cygnaeus Gallery, Helsinki

Emma Gyldén was one of five children of the Finnish land survey director Claes Wilhelm Gyldén (1802-1872), raised as a real councilor in the personal nobility, and his wife Amalia Sofia Danielsson (1812-1844). She attended the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association under Berndt Godenhjelm (1799–1881). She had her exhibition debut in 1854. In 1862 she won second prize in the competition of the Finnish Art Association, the so-called "Ducat Prize", which has been awarded annually since 1858. In 1863/1864 she was a student of the landscape painter Johan Edvard Bergh in Stockholm. In 1868/1869 she stayed in Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe , where she was taught by Hans Fredrik Gude . Fanny Churberg , her student, had gone to Düsseldorf in 1867. In 1870 she married her cousin, the merchant Fabian Wilhelm von Schantz (1839–1910) in Vanaja. The marriage remained childless. In 1875 she stayed with her brother, the sculptor Axel Gyldén (1838-1915), in Paris , where they frequented the circle of Scandinavian artists around the painter Albert Edelfelt , the singer Filip Forstén (1852-1932) and their friends . Emma von Schantz died of lung disease at the age of 39 and was buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.

Selection of works

  • Maisema Hämeestä (Landscape in Häme) , oil on canvas, 28.5 × 38.5 cm, Helsinki, National Gallery

literature

  • Gylden, Emma . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 375 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , appendix, p. 444.
  • Della Gaze (Ed.): Concise Dictionary of Women Artists. Taylor & Francis Group New York and London 2001, p. 25 (Churberg, Fanny).
  • Riitta Konttinen: Naistaiteilijat Suomessa: keskiajalta modernismin murrokseen. Tammi, Helsinki 2008, 479 pages, ISBN 978-951-31-4105-9 .
  • Laurence Madeline (Ed.): Women Artists in Paris, 1850–1900. Yale University Press, New Haven 2017, p. 246 (Churberg, Fanny).

Web links

Commons : Emma Gyldén  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ First prize went to Ida Silfverberg (1834–1899), another second prize to Selma Schaeffer (1836–1918).
  2. ↑ Susanna Pettersson: Suomen Taideyhdistyksen jakamat Dukaattipalkinnot 1858-2006 . Listan laatinut, in: Dukaattipalkinto
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 431
  4. ↑ In 1861 he had received a 2nd prize from the Finnish Art Association.
  5. ↑ Axel Gyldén (1838–1915)
  6. ↑ Emma Gyldén von Schantz , website in the findagrave.com portal
personal data
SURNAME Gylden, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schantz, Emma von (from 1870)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1874
Place of death Helsinki