Eva Bonnier

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Eva Fredrika Bonnier (17 November 1857 – 13 January 1909) was a Swedish painter and philanthropist.

Biography

Born in Stockholm as the daughter of publisher

Paris Salon.[1] After her return to Sweden in 1889, she was active as a painter until about 1900, mostly of portraits, such as those of Lisen Bonnier (her sister-in-law) as convalescent, industrialist Hjalmar Lundbohm, politician Moritz Rubenson [sv], educator Carl Meijerberg [sv] and poet and scholar Oscar Levertin. Bonnier exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[2] She is represented with several paintings in the Nationalmuseum
, Stockholm.

Eva Bonnier, 1905

After about 1900 Bonnier fell silent as an artist and devoted herself to her philanthropic work, enabled through her inherited wealth. She established a foundation for the beautification of Stockholm, which in its first years financed paintings and sculptures for public places and institutions, such as the Royal Library, Stockholm University, and several Stockholm schools. The foundation remains active.[3]

Bonnier was a member of the women's association Nya Idun.[4]

Bonnier suffered from frequent depressions and took her own life in Copenhagen in 1909, aged 51.[3]

Selected works

  • 1886 (Self portrait, Bonnier family portrait collection, Stockholm)
    1886 (Self portrait, Bonnier family portrait collection, Stockholm)
  • 1886 (Interior of a Studio in Paris, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)
    1886 (Interior of a Studio in Paris, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)
  • 1887 (Magdalena, Waldemarsudde)
    1887 (Magdalena, Waldemarsudde)
  • 1887 (Reflection in Blue, Nationalmuseum)
    1887 (Reflection in Blue, Nationalmuseum)
  • 1887 (Dressmakers)
    1887 (Dressmakers)
  • 1890 (The House Keeper, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)
    1890 (The House Keeper, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)
  • 1890 (Convalescent, Lisen Bonnier)
    1890 (Convalescent, Lisen Bonnier)
  • ca 1906 (Julia Hasselberg, Blekinge museum)
    ca 1906 (Julia Hasselberg, Blekinge museum)

References

  1. ^ Gynning, Margareta. "Eva Fredrika Bonnier". Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  2. ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Sisters in Light: Hanna Hirsch-Pauli and Eva Bonnier". Eclecticlight. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Eva Bonnier". nyaidun.se (in Swedish). 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  • Gynning, Margareta: Det ambivalenta perspektivet: Eva Bonnier och Hanna Hirsch-Pauli i 1880-talets konstliv, Stockholm, Bonnier, (diss. Uppsala University), 1999.
  • Hedberg, Tor: "Bonnier, Eva Fredrika", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, 5, pp. 436–438.

Further reading

External links

Media related to Eva Bonnier at Wikimedia Commons

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