Carl Fredrik von Saltza was an artist and portrait painter. Saltza was best known in Sweden for his genre pictures in watercolor and for his drawings. He was one of the main illustrators for Fredrik Sander's 1893 edition of the Poetic Edda

Poetic Edda

The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century...

. In the United States, Saltza was best known for his portraits.

Life

Saltza was born in Sörby

Sorby

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, Östergötland

Östergötland

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, Sweden

Sweden

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 to Count Carl Anton Philips von Saltza and Countess Gustava Christina Dela Gardie in 1858. Saltza received his early education in private schools in Uppsala

Uppsala

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 and Stockholm

Stockholm

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...

, Sweden, and subsequently went on to study painting in the Royal Academy in Stockholm

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

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. There he studied under Georg von Rosen

Georg von Rosen

Georg von Rosen , was a Swedish painter, known for his treatment of subjects from Swedish history and Norse mythology...

 and August Malmström

August Malmström

Johan August Malmström was a Swedish painter and professor at the Swedish Academy of Arts from 1867 to 1894 and the manager of the same institution from 1887 to 1893. Attracted by gothicismus he collected motives from Norse mythology. He is also appreciated for his country motives with children...

. Dissatisfied with the teaching, Saltza traveled abroad with his friend Karl Nordström

Karl Nordström

Karl Fredrik Nordström was a Swedish painter and one of the leading members of Konstnärsförbundet, which he chaired from 1896 until its dissolution in 1920....

 and continued his studies at the Royal Academy in Brussels

Brussels

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, Belgium

Belgium

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, and under private teachers in Paris

Paris

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, France, including Jean-Léon Gérôme

Jean-Léon Gérôme

Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.-Life:Jean-Léon Gérôme was born...

.

Upon his return to Sweden Saltza associated himself with the group of artists who formed Konstnärsförbundet in 1886. The conflict between the Royal Academy and Konstnärsförbundet contributed to Saltza's decision to emigrate to the United States in 1891. Saltza was an instructor in painting in St. Louis, Missouri

Missouri

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, from 1892 to 1898 and at the Chicago Art Institute in Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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, from 1898 to 1899. In 1899 to 1901, Saltza was an instructor at the Teachers' College at Columbia University

Columbia University

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 in Manhattan

Manhattan

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, New York City

New York City

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. Later in life, Saltza painted portraits in Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio

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, and died in St. Luke's Hospital, New York in 1905.

Saltza married Henrietta Stoopendahl in 1883 in Stockholm. The von Saltza house is extinct in Sweden but survives in the United States.