Anna Boberg (Swedish painter, writer and designer) 1864 - 1935
Hamnen i Svolvaer, Lofoten (The Harbour at Svolvaer, Lofoten), s.d.
oil on canvas
75.5 x 109 cm. (29.7 x 42.9 in.)
signed: A. Boberg
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Anna Katarina Boberg (born Scholander), born December 3, 1864 in Stockholm, died there January 27, 1935, was a Swedish artist, married to the architect Ferdinand Boberg. Anna Scholander was the daughter of architect FW Scholander. She was the sixth of seven children in the family Scholander. She studied French and for a short time, she studied painting at the Academie Julian in Paris.
In Paris she met Ferdinand Boberg, who was there on a field trip.
In 1888 they married in Stockholm, where they lived at first in Scholander's residence, until Boberg's improved economy allowed them to move to an apartment on Tegnérgatan 13 in Stockholm.
In 1905, Anna Boberg by chance contact with Margaret of Connaught (Princess Margaret) who was also a serious painter, although she had studied in Paris.
She performed decorative paintings including Hôtel Rydberg dining room and in the Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden.
She also designed ceramics "Peacock Vase" for Rörstrand 1897 and art glass, and composed the tissues.
At the Paris World Exhibition in 1900, where Ferdinand Boberg was the project architect for the Swedish Pavilion, created Anna Boberg numerous fabrics that were woven by the Friends.
She was also the author of the text of Wilhelm Stenhammar's opera "Tirfing" which she also did set design for.
Before Anna Boberg made her breakthrough as a landscape painter specialising in large-scale winter landscapes of northern Norway, she designed handicraft and tapestry patterns as well as porcelain in exquisite Art Nouveau style.
Anna Boberg wrote her autobiography Envar sitt ödes lekboll (Everyone Is the Sport of Fortune), published in 1934. She found her motifs and style as a painter during a journey to Lofoten in 1901. She was a self-taught artist and was married to Ferdinand Boberg, who, like her father, was an architect and one of the men who built modern Sweden at the turn of the century.
Hamnen i Svolvaer, Lofoten (The Harbour at Svolvaer, Lofoten), s.d.
oil on canvas
75.5 x 109 cm. (29.7 x 42.9 in.)
signed: A. Boberg
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Anna Katarina Boberg (born Scholander), born December 3, 1864 in Stockholm, died there January 27, 1935, was a Swedish artist, married to the architect Ferdinand Boberg. Anna Scholander was the daughter of architect FW Scholander. She was the sixth of seven children in the family Scholander. She studied French and for a short time, she studied painting at the Academie Julian in Paris.
In Paris she met Ferdinand Boberg, who was there on a field trip.
In 1888 they married in Stockholm, where they lived at first in Scholander's residence, until Boberg's improved economy allowed them to move to an apartment on Tegnérgatan 13 in Stockholm.
In 1905, Anna Boberg by chance contact with Margaret of Connaught (Princess Margaret) who was also a serious painter, although she had studied in Paris.
She performed decorative paintings including Hôtel Rydberg dining room and in the Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden.
She also designed ceramics "Peacock Vase" for Rörstrand 1897 and art glass, and composed the tissues.
At the Paris World Exhibition in 1900, where Ferdinand Boberg was the project architect for the Swedish Pavilion, created Anna Boberg numerous fabrics that were woven by the Friends.
She was also the author of the text of Wilhelm Stenhammar's opera "Tirfing" which she also did set design for.
Before Anna Boberg made her breakthrough as a landscape painter specialising in large-scale winter landscapes of northern Norway, she designed handicraft and tapestry patterns as well as porcelain in exquisite Art Nouveau style.
Anna Boberg wrote her autobiography Envar sitt ödes lekboll (Everyone Is the Sport of Fortune), published in 1934. She found her motifs and style as a painter during a journey to Lofoten in 1901. She was a self-taught artist and was married to Ferdinand Boberg, who, like her father, was an architect and one of the men who built modern Sweden at the turn of the century.
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