Lea Ahlborn

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Lea Ahlborn

Lea Frederika Ahlborn (born February 18, 1826 in Stockholm ; † November 13, 1897 there ) was a Swedish artist and member of the Royal Academy of Art . She was the first Swedish woman in the civil service medals engraved .

biography

Lea Ahlborn's well-known premium medal for horse breeding in Sweden.

She was the daughter of the coin engraver Ludwig Peterssen Lundgren and showed an early interest in her father's profession. In 1849 she was one of four women who were able to study at the Stockholm Art Academy for the first time. Together with her mentor, Carl Gustaf Qvarnström , and her brother, she went on a study trip to Paris in 1852 , where she worked for the sculptor Toussaint and the coin engraver Barre.

A year after her return to Stockholm, she married the sculptor Carl Ahlborn on April 23, 1854. In 1855 Lea Ahlborn became the first woman in the country to be employed by the state mint and in the same year she was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Art. She has received commissions from the Swedish Academy , the Science Academy and the Royal Charity Association Pro Patria . Her works include, for example, a medal for the silver wedding anniversary of the Swedish royal couple, a medal for the centenary of the American War of Independence depicting George Washington and a medal for the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus .

In 1883 she was awarded the royal medal Illis Quorum .

Literature and web links

  • Förteckning öfver af fru Lea Ahlborn, f. Lundgren utställda medaljonger, mynt och medaljer på K. Akademiens för de fria konsterna utställning år 1877 . Stockholm 1877.
  • Ahlborn, Lea. In: In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 7. Digitized
  • Brita Olsén: Lea Ahlborn. En svensk medaljkonstnär under 1800-talet . Svenska Bokförlaget, Stockholm 1962.
  • Österberg, Carin et al., Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare . Lund: Signum 1990. ( ISBN 91-87896-03-6 )
  • Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor , Wilhelmina Stålberg & PG Berg
  • Royal Museums Greenwich Art Prints

Individual evidence

  1. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Ahlborn, Lea. tape VII . Spink & Son Ltd, London 1923, p. 8th f . (English).
  2. ^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Ahlborn, Lea. tape I . Spink & Son Ltd, London 1904, p. 30th ff . (English).
personal data
SURNAME Ahlborn, Lea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahlborn, Lea Frederika (full name); Lundgren, Lea Frederika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1897
Place of death Stockholm