Amalia Lindegren

Amalia Lindegren ( May 22nd, 1814 Stockholm, † December 27, 1891 ibid ) was a Swedish painter and from 1856 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

Biography

She lost her mother when she was three years old and was adopted by the widow of her alleged father. Your drawings prompted Carl Gustaf Qvarnström to include them as one of four women in 1849 as a student in art school her hometown. Amalia Lindegren development was so promising that they are the first Swedish artist was in 1850 that received a travel grant. She then studied in Paris under Léon Cogniet and Tissier and in Dusseldorf and Munich. After her return, she was elected a member of the Academy of Arts.

Amalie Lindegren crafted portraits, genre panels and scenes from the life of the common people. She was inspired by Adolph Tidemand, Hans Fredrik Gude and Per Nordberg and the German style. As a portrait painter, she was praised for her observation. Her paintings of the province of Dalarna, often sweet but sorrowful girl abbildeten were very popular. Your image Lillans sista bädd was issued in Paris in 1867, in Philadelphia in 1876 and 1893 in Chicago.

Painting (selection)

• Lillans sista bädd (1858 )
• Söndagsafton i en dalstuga (1860 )
• Frukosten (1866 )
• Arvid Posse ( 1891)

Gallery

Söndagsafton i en dalastuga (1860 )

Frukosten (1866 )

Portrait of the Prime Minister Arvid Posse

Literature and links

• Österberg, Carin et al, Svenska kvinnor. Föregångare, nyskapare. Lund: Signum 1990 ISBN 91-87896-03-6.

• Swedish painter
• Born in 1814
• Died in 1891
• Woman
• Honorary Member of the Kungliga Konsthögskolan Stockholm