Emma Loewstädt-Chadwick

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Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick, photograph around 1901

Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick (born Emma Hilma Amalia Löwstädt on August 10, 1855 in Stockholm ; died on January 2, 1932 in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon ) was a Swedish painter and graphic artist.

Life

Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick: Portrait Francis Brook Chadwick

Emma Löwstädt was born in Stockholm in 1855 as the daughter of master tailor Rudolf Löwstädt and his wife Carolina Magdalena Sophia, née Nordqvist. Her grandfather was the painter and graphic artist Carl Theodor Löwstädt . Her sister Eva Löwstädt-Åström , born in 1864 , later also became a painter.

After completing school, Emma Löwstädt studied from 1874 to 1880 at the Slöjdskolan School of Art (today Konstfack ) and in the women's class of the Konsthögskolan Kungliga in Stockholm. A scholarship enabled her to go on her first study trip to France in 1879, where she visited Paris, Brittany and Villerville in Normandy . In 1880 her father financed another trip to France. With her friend, the painter Amanda Sidwall , she traveled to Concarneau in Brittany, where she devoted herself to outdoor painting . Her local motifs included fishermen and shepherds. From 1881 she continued her studies in Paris, where she attended the Académie Julian and the painting classes of the artists Jean-Charles Cazin and Tony Robert-Fleury . The painter Marie Bashkirtseff was one of her Parisian friends , with whom she temporarily shared a studio.

Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick: Strandparasollen, Brittany (portrait av Amanda Sidwall) , 1880

1881 debuted Löwstädt in the Salon de Paris and placed the portrait of Mlle C from. After that she regularly showed her works there. Löwstädt married the wealthy American painter Francis Brook Chadwick (1850–1942) in 1882 . The couple settled in Grez-sur-Loing , where they bought the Laurent guesthouse in 1891 , which served as a meeting place for the Swedish artists' colony. The couple also had their own house built on the property.

After initially working as a portrait painter, she later devoted herself mainly to genre painting . She made numerous trips with her husband that took them to the United States, North Africa, Italy and Great Britain. In addition to London, they also visited the St. Ives artists' colony in Cornwall . In 1889 Löwstädt-Chadwick showed works at the Paris World Exhibition , in 1893 she exhibited paintings at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Löwstädt-Chadwick became involved in Sweden in 1885 in the artist group Opponenterna and a member of the resulting artists' association Konstnärsförbundet . In addition to painting, she also devoted herself to etching and was one of the founding members of Grafiska sällskapet ( Graphic Society ) in 1910 . Her works are for example in the Nordic Museum and the National Museum in Stockholm.

literature

  • Kerstin Larsson: Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick: 1855-1932 . Exhibition catalog Liljevalchs konsthall
  • Kerstin Larsson: Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick (1855-1932): une artiste peintre suédoise en France . Géraud Amic, Paris 2010.
  • Laurence Madeline: Women artists in Paris, 1850-1900 . Exhibition catalog Denver Art Museum, JB Speed ​​Art Museum, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in collaboration with the American Federation of Arts, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2017, ISBN 978-0-300-22393-4 .
  • Anna Meister, Carina Rech, Karin Sidén: Grez-sur-Liong. Constant and relational . Exhibition catalog Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm 2019, ISBN 978-91-86265-43-4 .

Web links

Commons : Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ While Avignon is sometimes given as the place of death in older literature, current works cite Villeneuve-lès-Avignon as the place of death, see Laurence Madeline: Women artists in Paris, 1850-1900 , p. 250 or Anna Meister, Carina Rech, Karin Sidén: Grez-sur-Liong. Konst och relationer , p. 262.
  2. ↑ Anna Meister, Carina Rech, Karin Sidén: Grez-sur-Liong. Konst och relationer , p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Loewstädt-Chadwick, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwstädt-Chadwick, Emma Hilma Amalia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1932
Place of death Villeneuve-lès-Avignon