Fanny Brate
Fanny Ingeborg Matilda Brate, nee Ekbom ( born February 26, 1862 in Stockholm, † April 24, 1940 ibid ) was a Swedish painter. My work is considered as the inspiration for the family idylls of the painter Carl Larsson.
Life
Fanny Brate was the daughter of John Frederic Oscar Gustaf Ekbom, a servant in the household of Carl of Sweden. After she had completed the Konstfack ( Swedish School of Art ) in Stockholm, it was adopted in 1879 at the age of 18 years at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan Stockholm ( Royal Academy of Arts ), which she attended until 1885.
1887 she married the humanities Erik Brate ( 1857-1924 ), who worked in the field of research runes. The couple had four daughters, Astrid (1888-1929), Torun (1891-1993), Ragnhild (1892-1894) and IngeGerd ( 1899-1952 ). After marrying Fanny Brate was forced to give up painting, but she kept her involvement in the Swedish art world as a promoter for other artists at. In 1891 she was a member of the Swedish association of artists Svenska Konstnärernas Förening.
Work
In recognition of her artistic elaboration of the painting Konstvänner that Brate surrounded by a crowd of children shows, she was awarded a Royal Medal in 1885. She is best known for her 1902 created work Namnsdag, which today is located in the Swedish National Museum. Fanny Brate also illustrated many children's books, as Mormors eventyr ( Grandma's Adventure).
The National Museum was in 1943 a memorial exhibition of 126 of their collected works. Her work includes oil paintings and watercolors and has significant value as a cultural heritage in its representation of the bourgeois Swedish life in the nineteenth century.