Siri Derkert

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Siri Derkert , actually Siri Karin Derkert (born August 30, 1888 in Stockholm , † April 28, 1973 in Lidingö), was a Swedish expressionist artist .

Siri Derkert

life and work

Siri Derkert was born as one of seven children of the businessman Carl Edward Johansson Derkert. She attended the Althin Art School in Stockholm from 1904 and the Royal Academy of Art from 1911 to 1913. She then studied art in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere with Ninnan Santesson and Lisa Bergstrand (Bergstrand, Paulsson) to at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. During and after the Second World War she worked temporarily in Italy, where her first child Carlo was born.

Siri Derkert became known for her very personal expressionist style. In the early works, especially from the Parisian period, one can see the influence of Cubism and Fauvism . She preferred figurative painting in shades of gray, usually pastel colors, interiors and portraits of children. Siri Derkert exhibited in 1960 as the first woman with a solo exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Siri Derkert was awarded the Guggenheim Prize in the same year. It is represented in the National Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Sketches and the Göteborg Museum of Art.

Siri Derkert's "Sverigeväggen" ("Sweden Wall") on Sverigehuset, Stockholm.

Art in public space

  • Women's pillar, upper platform, T-Center train station in Stockholm, carved / concrete (1956–1958)
  • Östermalms train station in Stockholm (sandblasted / concrete from 1962 to 1964)
  • We - We - Nous, tapestry in the Satra Walking School in Lidingö 1962
  • Like the birds? Singing, Tapestry of Höganäs Halle Assembly Hall 1965–1967
  • Sweden wall at Sverigehuset, Kungsträdgården in Stockholm (relief / lettering / concrete / steel 1967–1969)
  • Clean air - clean water, sculpture in aluminum from the Gull Inge School in Tensta 1968–1972
  • Mustard Tree and the Birds, 1959–1969, reliefs in concrete, Skövde Culture, City Library

literature

  • Emilia Gedda: Siri Derkert - avant-garde artist and modetecknerska, pp. 68–69 in World of Art & Design 2001: 6
  • Rolf Söderberg: Siri Derkert, Swedish General Art Association Publication No. 83, Uddevalla 1974
  • Tom Sandqvist: He is, you know - Siri Derkert and Valle Rosenberg, Kaleidoscope, Åhus 1986, ISBN 91-85552-95-X
  • Annika Öhrner (Ed.): Siri Derkert, Verlag Atlantis, Stockholm 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Derkert, Siri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Derkert, Siri Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish expressionist artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1973
Place of death Lidingö