Mina Carlson-Bredberg

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Mina Carlson-Bredberg, before 1902

Mina Carlson-Bredberg (born Vilhelmina Bredberg on September 2, 1857 in Stockholm ; died on June 9, 1943 there ) was a Swedish painter .

life and work

Mina Carlson-Bredberg: Vid piano
Mina Carlson-Bredberg: Académie Julian (stora dame ateliern) med mademoiselle Beson som dricker ur sitt glas
Mina Carlson-Bredberg: Soluppgång i Södertälje

Vilhelmina Bredberg - called Mina - was born in Stockholm as the daughter of Henrik Wilhelm Bredberg and his wife Josefina Lovisa, née Smerling. The father was a senior government official and was appointed Konsultativt statsråd ( Minister without Portfolio ) in 1860 . The mother was the niece of the publisher Lars Johan Hierta ; both parents were interested in literature and art.

Mina Bredberg first attended the girls' school Normalskolan för flickor in Stockholm and then the private school Eggertz . Her artistic interests were promoted by the painter and poet Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander , who was a regular guest of the family. On his advice, she received lessons from the painters Kerstin Cardon and Amanda Sidwall . Bredberg married in 1877 at the age of 20 the family friend Vilhelm Swalin. During the marriage, she initially gave up painting and instead immersed herself in literary studies. In particular, she read the visions of St. Birgitta of Sweden and Dante's Divine Comedy . The marriage with Swalin was divorced in 1884. Bredberg had already left Sweden the previous year to continue her painting studies in Paris. There she studied from 1883 to 1887 at the Académie Julian with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger . One of her classmates was the painter Louise-Cathérine Breslau , with whom she became friends. In 1887 Bredberg exhibited a portrait for the first time in the Salon de Paris . In 1888 she took a trip to Italy, where she studied in particular the works of Giovanni Bellini , Antonello da Messina and Andrea Mantegna , which influenced her early work. In the same year she resumed her studies at the Académie Julian. Her teachers were now Carolus-Duran and Benjamin-Constant , while she also worked as an assistant teacher at the Académie. At the Paris World's Fair in 1889 , she exhibited a self-portrait, for which she received an honorable mention . Their work in Paris works were based on contemporary French artists such as Jules Bastien-Lepage and show an impressionistic embossed realism .

Bredberg returned to Sweden in 1890, but in the following years undertook extensive study trips from here that took her to England, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and Austria. In France she met the designer Lewis Foreman Day , through whom she got in touch with the British Arts and Crafts Movement . In London she met the artists William Morris and Walter Crane through him . The works of the English painters JMW Turner and James Abbott McNeill Whistler had a lasting influence on Bredberg's work. Her style of painting changed to a freer expressionist style with diffuse contours. This is particularly evident in their Stockholm cityscapes.

In Stockholm she was a member of the artists' association Konstnärsförbundet since 1890 and of the Svenska konstnärernas förening association since 1891 . From 1893 to 1895 she gave painting lessons at Elisabeth Keyser's school , which she already knew from Paris. In 1895 Bredberg married the government official Georg Carlson, with whom she lived until his death in 1920. Mina Carlson-Bredberg died in Stockholm in 1943.

Overall, the work of Carlson-Bredberg shows a great variety of motifs. In addition to landscapes, there are also interiors, religious motifs, genre pictures and flower still lifes. Her portraits are particularly numerous, especially depictions of children. She has shown her work in numerous exhibitions in Sweden and abroad, for example in Paris, Copenhagen and Chicago. Her works can be found, for example, in the National Museum and Museum Waldemarsudde in Stockholm and in Göteborgs konstmuseum .

literature

  • Laurence Madeline: Women Artists in Paris, 1850–1900 . American Federation of Arts, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-300-22393-4 .

Web links

Commons : Vilhelmina Carlson-Bredberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. For the spelling of the first name, the form Wilhelmina is sometimes used , for example on the website of the National Museum in Stockholm