Mina Carlson-Bredberg
Wilhelmina Carlson-Bredberg | |
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Born | Wilhelmina Bredberg 2 September 1857 Stockholm, Sweden |
Died | 9 June 1943 Stockholm, Sweden | (aged 85)
Nationality | Swedish |
Education | Academie Julien |
Movement | Arts and Crafts Movement |
Spouses | Vilhelm Swalin (m. 1877–1885)Georg Carlson (m. 1895) |
Wilhelmina Carlson-Bredberg (1857–1943), known as Mina, was a Swedish painter. She is particularly well known for her portraits, and scenes from contemporary life.
Biography
Bredberg was born on 2 September 1857 in Stockholm[1] to wealthy parents who participated in Swedish cultural life, and her uncle was the noted newspaper publisher and critic Lars Johan Hierta. As a teenager she took private painting lessons from Kerstin Cardon.[2] She was also taught by Elisabeth Keyser.[3]
At the age of twenty she was obliged by social convention to marry a family friend, Vilhelm Swalin, whom she had been observed kissing. For the seven years of her marriage she relinquished her painting career.[2]
She left her marriage in 1885 to travel to Paris to resume her training, alongside many of her Nordic female contemporaries.
She returned to Stockholm in 1890 to teach at the art school established by Elisabeth Keyser, but travelled often throughout Europe. In this period she forged strong links with English Arts and Crafts Movement figures such as William Morris.[2]
Carlson-Bredberg
In 1895 she married architect Georg Carlson, and again her artistic output was hampered by marriage.[2]
Carlson-Bredberg died on 9 June 1943 in Stockholm.[1] She was included in the 2018 exhibit Women in Paris 1850-1900.[7]
Her works are held in the
Gallery
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Portrait of Mrs. Anna Flensburg by Mina Carlson-Bredberg, 1887
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At the Piano by Mina Carlson-Bredberg, 1890
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Sunrise in Södertälje by Mina Carlson-Bredberg, 1892
Portraits of Mina Carlson-Bredberg
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Portrait of Mina Carlson-Bredberg by Amanda Sidwall, 1876
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Portrait of Mina Carlson-Bredberg by Carl Hedelin, n.d.
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self portrait, 1938
References
- ^ a b "Vilhelmina Carlson". RKD. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ OCLC 982652244.
- ^ "Elisabeth Keyser (1851-1898)". RKD. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
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- OCLC 52644787.
- ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ISBN 978-0300223934.
- ^ "Mina Carlson-Bredberg, Nationalmuseum" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-08-06.
- ^ "Göteborgs konstmuseum | Negress". emp-web-34.zetcom.ch (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-08-06.
Further reading
External links
- More works by Carlson-Bredberg @ ArtNet
- Biography @ the Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon