Siri Derkert

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

Life and work

Siri Derkert was born one of seven children of businessman Carl Edward Johansson Derkert. She attended from 1904 to the Althin art school in Stockholm and the Royal Academy of Art from 1911 to 1913. Subsequently, she studied art in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere with Ninnan Santesson and Lisa Berg beach (mountain beach, Paulsson ) to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. During and after the Second world War, she worked for a time in Italy, where their first child was born Carlo.

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

Siri Derkert Award in the same year with the Guggenheim Prize. It is represented in the National Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Sketches and Gothenburg Museum of Art

Art in Public Space

• Women column, the upper platform, T -Centre Metro Station in Stockholm, carved / concrete (1956-1958)
• Östermalm station in Stockholm ( sandblasted / Concrete 1962-1964 )
• We - We - Nous, tapestry in Satra Walking School Lidingö in 1962
• Like the birds? Singing, Tapestry of Höganäs Assembly Hall 1965-1967
• Sweden - wall at Sverigehuset, Kungsträdgården in Stockholm (relief / label / concrete / steel 1967-1969 )
• Clean air - clean water, aluminum sculpture in the Gull Inge school in Tensta 1968-1972
• Mustard tree, and the birds, 1959-1969, reliefs in concrete, Skövde culture, city library