Amalia Lindegren
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Amalia Lindegren,
Amalia Lindegren, (22 May 1814 – 27 December 1891 was a Swedish artist and painter, from 1856 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
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. At the age of three, she was left an orphan after her mother's death and adopted by the widow of her alleged biological father, Benjamin Sandel. Her position as a child was somewhat humiliating, as a form of charity object for the upper classes, and in her later work, her paintings of sad little girls are believed to be inspired by her childhood.
Her drawings made the artist and art teacher Carl Gustaf Qvarnström (1810–1867) include her as one of the four women accepted as students at the academy in 1849, and in 1850, she became the first woman given an art scholarship from the academy to study art in Paris
, which she did at the studies of Léon Cogniet
and Tissier; she also studied in Düsseldorf
and Münich
before returning to Sweden in 1856, where she was elected a member of the academy. She died in Stockholm.
She painted portraits and genre and was inspired by Adolph Tidemand
, Hans Gude
and Per Nordenberg and the contemporary German style. The painting she sent home from her studies in Paris was a scene of the drinking of alcohol, which according to the academy was "for a woman a surprising motive" and "This drinking scene bears no traces to have ben painted by a spinster". As a portrait painter, she was recommended for her talent of observation, and her paintings from Dalarna
, and her sentimental paintings of sad little girls (which are thought to be inspired by her childhood) were very popular; Lillans sista bädd ("The last bed of The Little one") was displayed in Paris in 1867, in Philadelphia in 1876 and in Chicago
in 1893.
Amalia Lindegren, (22 May 1814 – 27 December 1891 was a Swedish artist and painter, from 1856 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts or Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna, founded in 1773 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden...
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Biography
Lindegren was born in StockholmStockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
. At the age of three, she was left an orphan after her mother's death and adopted by the widow of her alleged biological father, Benjamin Sandel. Her position as a child was somewhat humiliating, as a form of charity object for the upper classes, and in her later work, her paintings of sad little girls are believed to be inspired by her childhood.
Her drawings made the artist and art teacher Carl Gustaf Qvarnström (1810–1867) include her as one of the four women accepted as students at the academy in 1849, and in 1850, she became the first woman given an art scholarship from the academy to study art in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, which she did at the studies of Léon Cogniet
Léon Cogniet
Léon Cogniet was a French historical and portrait painter.- Biography :Cogniet was born in Paris. In 1812, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Pierre-Narcisse Guérin at the same time as Delacroix and Géricault. In 1817 he won the Prix de Rome and was a resident at...
and Tissier; she also studied in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
and Münich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
before returning to Sweden in 1856, where she was elected a member of the academy. She died in Stockholm.
She painted portraits and genre and was inspired by Adolph Tidemand
Adolph Tidemand
Adolph Tidemand was a noted Norwegian romantic nationalism painter. Among his best known paintings are Haugianerne and Brudeferd i Hardanger with Hans Gude.-Biography:Adolph Tidemand was born in Mandal, Norway as the son of customs inspector and Storting representative...
, Hans Gude
Hans Gude
Hans Fredrik Gude was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters...
and Per Nordenberg and the contemporary German style. The painting she sent home from her studies in Paris was a scene of the drinking of alcohol, which according to the academy was "for a woman a surprising motive" and "This drinking scene bears no traces to have ben painted by a spinster". As a portrait painter, she was recommended for her talent of observation, and her paintings from Dalarna
Dalarna
', English exonym: Dalecarlia, is a historical province or landskap in central Sweden. Another English language form established in literature is the Dales. Places involving the element Dalecarlia exist in the United States....
, and her sentimental paintings of sad little girls (which are thought to be inspired by her childhood) were very popular; Lillans sista bädd ("The last bed of The Little one") was displayed in Paris in 1867, in Philadelphia in 1876 and in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
in 1893.