Sigrid Hjertén

Sigrid Hjertén ( born October 27, 1885 in Sundsvall, † March 24, 1948 in Stockholm) was a Swedish painter of Expressionism.

Life

Sigrid Hjertén came from a wealthy merchant family and grew up in Stockholm. After a completed training as an art teacher she had, first, to study textile design in England. In the spring of 1909, she met the painter Isaac Grünewald ( 1889-1946 ), who at that time was already studying at the Académie Matisse, and convinced them to follow him to Paris.

In the Paris study years Hjertén was a favorite student of Henri Matisse quickly. Your first oil paintings, mostly nudes and still lifes were, however, strongly influenced by Paul Cézanne. Upon her return to Stockholm, as well as her marriage to Isaac Grünewald and the birth of their son Ivan, Hjertén appeared as the only female member of the progressive artist group De åtta at ( " The Eight" ). In the spring of 1912, she presented for the first time from their works. Hjerténs role in the Swedish art scene and the activities of the avant-garde group De Hun ( The Boys ) and The Eight, can be personalized with the simultaneous movement of the founded in 1911 the "Blue Rider " in Germany and here entirely with the role of Gabriele Münter - compare - the partner Wassily Kandinsky.

In the early 1920s moved Hjertén with her family again to Paris, where she rather led a secluded private life. In 1928, the first signs of an impending mental illness became noticeable. 1932, therefore, the family returned to Stockholm.

Sigrid Hjertén died in 1948 at the age of 62 years in a Stockholm Psychiatry at the consequences of a failed lobotomy.