100 Notable alumni of
Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
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The Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design is 889th in the world, 313th in Europe, and 8th in Sweden by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Tove Jansson
- Occupations
- writerpaintercartoonistchildren's writerillustrator
- Biography
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Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in 1943. Over the same period, she penned short stories and articles for publication, and subsequently drew illustrations for book covers, advertisements, and postcards. She continued her work as an artist and writer for the rest of her life.
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Jwan Yosef
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- In 2009 studied fine art
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Jwan Yosef is a Syrian-born Swedish painter and artist of Kurdish and Armenian heritage. He specializes in plastic arts and is based in London, England.
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Hilma af Klint
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- artistpainter
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Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history. A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian. She belonged to a group called "The Five", comprising a circle of women inspired by Theosophy, who shared a belief in the importance of trying to contact the so-called "High Masters"—often by way of séances. Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas.
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Tuulikki Pietilä
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- graphic artistgraphic designerpainterteacher
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Ida Helmi Tuulikki Pietilä was an American-born Finnish graphic artist and professor. Pietilä is considered one of Finland's most influential graphic artists, with her work being shown in multiple art exhibitions. She worked as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, and later trained graphic artists and wrote multiple books about graphic arts.
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Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia
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- bandy playerartistnurse
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Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, known as Maria Pavlovna the Younger, was a granddaughter of Alexander II of Russia. She was a paternal first cousin of Nicholas II (Russia's last Tsar) and maternal first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (consort of Elizabeth II). She was also both the first grandchild of George I of Greece and the first great-grandchild of his father Christian IX of Denmark.
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Lasse Åberg
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- musiciantelevision presenterscreenwritergraphic designerdirector
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Lars Gunnar Åberg, known professionally as Lasse Åberg, is a Swedish actor, musician, film director and artist. Between 1960 and 1964 he studied at the Konstfack department of graphic design.
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Robert Broberg
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- composerscreenwritersingerpaintermusician
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Robert Zero Karl Oskar Broberg was a Swedish singer, composer and artist. As an artist, he used various names: Robban or Robban Broberg (1957–1968), Robert Karl-Oskar Broberg (1968–1974), Zero (1974–1982) and, starting in 1982, Robert Broberg, the name he used until his death.
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Elsa Beskow
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1890-1895
- Occupations
- graphic artistchildren's writerartistwriterart educator
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Elsa Beskow was a famous Swedish author and illustrator of children's books. Among her better known books are Tale of the Little Little Old Woman and Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender.
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Sigrid Hjertén
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- art educatorpainterartisttextile artist
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Sigrid Hjertén was a Swedish modernist painter. Hjertén is considered a major figure in Swedish modernism. Periodically she was highly productive and participated in 106 exhibitions. She worked as an artist for 30 years before dying of complications from a lobotomy for schizophrenia.
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Kakan Hermansson
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- television presenterradio personalitycomedianartist
- Biography
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Karin Signhild Hermansson, better known as Kakan Hermansson, is a Swedish television presenter, radio host, comedian and artist. She has had her own television show on Sveriges Television (SVT) called Kaka på Kaka and has worked on shows for both Sveriges Radio and TV4. A graduate of the Stockholm art academy Konstfack, she works with a feminist art collective and has exhibited her (mostly ceramic) art in various places. She calls herself a radical feminist.
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Carl Johan De Geer
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- writerpainterdirectormusicianfilm director
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Baron Carl Johan Louis De Geer af Finspång is a Swedish artist, writer, musician and friherre (baron) of the De Geer noble family.
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Carl Milles
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- sculptoruniversity teacherarchitect
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Carl Milles was a Swedish sculptor. He was married to artist Olga Milles (née Granner) and brother to Ruth Milles and half-brother to the architect Evert Milles. Carl Milles sculpted the Gustaf Vasa statue at the Stockholm Nordic Museum, the Poseidon statue in Gothenburg, the Orpheus group outside the Stockholm Concert Hall, and the Fountain of Faith in Falls Church, Virginia. His home near Stockholm, Millesgården, became his resting place and is now a museum.
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Anna Odell
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- actorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Anna Carolina Odell is a Swedish artist and film director. She won two Guldbaggen Award for in 2014 for her film The Reunion in the categories Best Film and Best Screenplay. In 2009, her film Okänd, kvinna 2009-349701 received a lot of attention as it includes a faked suicide attempt on Liljeholmsbron in Stockholm. Both films have been nominated and presented at the Venice Biennale Film Festival.
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Stig Lindberg
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- designerpainteruniversity teacherceramicistillustrator
- Biography
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Stig Lindberg was a Swedish ceramic designer, glass designer, textile designer, industrial designer, painter, and illustrator.
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Ulrica Hydman-Vallien
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1958-1962
- Occupations
- painterceramicistglass artist
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Ulrica Margareta Hydman Vallien was a Swedish artist who specialized in stained glass and decorative painting. In Sweden, she became best known for her vases with motifs of sinuous snakes, tulips and wolves.
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Love Antell
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- artistsinger
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Love Henrik Samuel Antell is a Swedish-Finnish singer and artist. As a student he attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. Antell is known as the frontman of the band Florence Valentin, and as a solo singer. Antell's parents were both from Finland. He grew up in Östermalm in central Stockholm but nowadays resides in Hägersten. He was educated as an illustrator at Konstfack between 2001 and 2007, and he is inspired by Lars Hillersberg. Between 2007 and 2011, Antell was a guitarist in the folk-rock group Perssons Pack. He participated in Mika Ronkainen's drama documentary film "Ingen riktig finne"; the film won first prize in the category Best Nordic Documentary at the Gothenburg Film Festival in 2013.
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Bertil Vallien
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1955-1961
- Occupations
- designersculptorglass artistartist
- Biography
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Erik Bertil Vallien, née Wallin, is a Swedish artist working mainly with sculputreing, ceramics. glass artist and design.
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Rosa Taikon
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1961-1967
- Occupations
- dancerjewelry designeractorsilversmith
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Rosa Sofia Ingeborg Taikon, formerly Janusch and Widegren, was a Swedish Romani silversmith and activist. From the Kalderash subgroup, Taikon first received public recognition for her work as a silversmith. Following the murder of her brother in 1962, Taikon and her sister Katarina became noted Romani activists against antiziganism in Sweden as well as abroad. For her contribution to Romani rights, Taikon was awarded the Olof Palme Prize in 2013.
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Marta Maas-Fjetterstrom
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1890-1895
- Occupations
- textile artistdrawing teacher
- Biography
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Märta Livia Vilhelmina Måås-Fjetterström was a leading Swedish textile artist in the early 20th-century. She is remembered in particular for the weaving studio she opened in Båstad in 1919 and for the decorative rugs she produced from the 1910s to the 1930s, increasingly combining rural Nordic traditions with modernist trends. Her works are exhibited in some of the world's most important art museums, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Jockum Nordström
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- writerdrawerpaintercollagistillustrator
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Jockum Nordström is a Swedish artist, best known for his vivid collages, but also for his drawings, paintings and work as an illustrator.
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Oskar Andersson
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- caricaturistcomics artistcartoonistdrawercomics creator
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Oskar Emil "O.A." Andersson was a Swedish cartoonist and one of Sweden's first true comic creators. He greatly influenced Swedish cartooning culture.
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Ester Ellqvist
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- painter
- Biography
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Ruth "Ester" Elisabet Ellqvist was a Swedish artist, model and wife of John Bauer, who was a painter and illustrator. She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and spent one year studying art in southern Germany and Italy with her husband. She died in 1918 with her husband and three-year-old son when the boat that they sailed on sank, killing all 24 people on board.
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Wilhelm Kåge
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- designerpainterceramicistgraphic artistillustrator
- Biography
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Algot Wilhelm Kåge was a Swedish artist and designer, mainly known as a ceramic designer and as the artistic leader of the Gustavsberg porcelain factory.
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Greta Magnusson-Grossman
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- designerarchitect
- Biography
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Greta Magnusson-Grossman was a Swedish furniture designer, interior designer, and architect. She was one of the few female designers to gain prominence during the mid-20th century architectural scene in Los Angeles. Her early exposure to European Modernism deeply influenced her later architectural work, seen as a synthesis of European ideals and the culture and lifestyle of Southern California.
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Katja of Sweden
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- fashion designer
- Biography
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Katja Ingergard Geiger, better known as Katja of Sweden, was a Swedish fashion designer.
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Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss
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- writercostume designerceramicistscenographersculptor
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Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss was a Swedish costume designer, scenic designer, sculptor, ceramist, and actress. She won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Costume Design for her work on Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade (1963). She has designed sets and costumes for numerous theaters internationally, including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Swedish Opera. From 1966 to 1989, she worked regularly as a set and costume designer for Ingmar Bergman. She also collaborated as a designer with directors Fritz Kortner and Peter Brook.
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Fanny Brate
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- painter
- Biography
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Fanny Ingeborg Matilda Brate, née Ekbom was a Swedish painter. She specialized in genre scenes, featuring families, which are often cited as the inspiration for similar works by Carl Larsson.
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Astrid Sampe
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1928-1930
- Occupations
- designertextile artist
- Biography
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Astrid Sampe was a Swedish textile designer who for a large part of her professional life was affiliated with the textile department at Nordiska Kompaniet but also worked for several other textile producers.
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Tyra Lundgren
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- sculptorartist
- Biography
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Tyra Carolina Lundgren was a Swedish painter, ceramist, glass and textile designer, and writer. One of the most versatile artists and modernists of the 20th century, Lundgren was the first woman to design glass for Paolo Venini, and emerged as a pioneer of the Swedish Grace style. In 1950, she was awarded the Swedish royal medal Litteris et Artibus in recognition of her artistic career.
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Eva Lindström
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- children's writerillustrator
- Biography
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Eva Lindström is a Swedish illustrator and author. Her work is known for its humorous and dark style.
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Edvin Öhrström
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- graphic artistsculptordrawerglass artist
- Biography
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Karl Edvin Öhrström was a Swedish sculptor and glass artist.
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Harald Wiberg
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1930-1931
- Occupations
- painterillustratordrawer
- Biography
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Harald Wiberg was a Swedish writer, artist and illustrator. He was best known for his illustrations in the books about Tomten and of Astrid Lindgren.
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Albin Amelin
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- painter
- Biography
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Hans Albin Agaton Amelin was a Swedish artist.
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Frida Stéenhoff
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- painterhandicrafterfeministwomen's rights activistdrawer
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Helga Frideborg "Frida" Maria Stéenhoff, née Wadström, was a Swedish writer and women's rights activist. She was a leading participant of the public debate of gender equality and a contributor of several radical progressive publications. She was engaged in the women suffrage movement and several humanitarian organisations.
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Julia Beck
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- calligrapherpainter
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Julia Beck was a Swedish painter and calligrapher.
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Gunnar Widforss
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- drawerpainter
- Biography
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Gunnar Mauritz Widforss was a Swedish American artist who specialized in painting subjects from the wilderness in watercolor. Widforss is most frequently associated with landscapes from American National Parks.
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Cecilia Torudd
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- comics artistillustrator
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Cecilia Torudd is a Swedish illustrator and author born in Lund. Since the 1970s, she has been a contributing illustrator for the children's magazine Kamratposten.
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Gijs Bakker
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1962-1963
- Occupations
- jewelry designerceramics designerdesigneruniversity teachersculptor
- Biography
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Gijs Bakker is a Dutch jewellery and industrial-designer, educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Vera Nilsson
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- artistdrawer
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Vera Amalia Märta Nilsson was a Swedish painter and a peace activist. One of Sweden's most prominent Expressionists, she is remembered in particular for her paintings of children, including her daughter Ginga, and for her landscapes, often scenes of Öland where she spent her summers. Her anti-war sentiments are vividly expressed in Penning conta liv, painted during the Spanish Civil War in 1939. In the 1960s, she painted works protesting nuclear war. Her work is represented in museums and galleries in Sweden and abroad, including Nationalmuseet and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
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Pye Engström
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- sculptorartist
- Biography
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Pye Ester Agneta Engström is a Swedish sculptor.
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Carl-Axel Acking
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- designerarchitect
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Carl-Axel Acking was a Swedish architect, author and furniture designer, winner of the Lunning Prize in 1952.
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Ruth Milles
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- sculptorwriter
- Biography
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Ruth Milles was a Swedish sculptor and writer. She is mainly known for her figurines and reliefs.
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Barbro Östlihn
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- painter
- Biography
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Barbro Östlihn was a Swedish artist.
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David Wallin
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- drawerpainter
- Biography
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David August Wallin was a Swedish artist. In 1932 he won an Olympic Gold Medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles for his oil painting "At the Seaside of Arild".
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Anna-Lisa Thomson
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- designerpainterceramicistillustrator
- Biography
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Anna-Lisa Thomson, born 20 September 1905 in Karlskrona, Sweden, died 12 February 1952, was a Swedish painter and ceramist.
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Arvid Knöppel
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- sculptorwriterdrawer
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Arvid Knöppel was a Swedish sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Anna Fiske
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- comics artistcartoonistauthorchildren's writerillustrator
- Biography
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Anna Karin Helena Fiske is a Swedish-born illustrator and writer who settled in Norway.
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Björn Gidstam
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1956-1961
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Björn Gidstam is a Swedish artist.
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Zenia Larsson
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- sculptorwriter
- Biography
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Zenia Szajna Larsson, née Marcinkowska was a Polish-Swedish writer and sculptor of Jewish descent. Larsson was a Holocaust survivor who was among the first in Sweden to describe their war experience.
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Louise Adelborg
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- textile artistdesigner
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Louise Nathalie Adelborg was a Swedish porcelain designer and textile artist.
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Maja Andersson Wirde
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- textile artistdrawing teacher
- Biography
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Sigrid Maria Andersson Wirde (1873–1952) was a leading Swedish textile artist in the first half of the 20th century. From 1907, she worked for 20 years as a pattern designer for the Friends of Handicraft or Handarbetets Vänner in Stockholm where she created large carpets for Stockholm City Hall and textiles for the transatlantic liner MS Kungsholm. In 1929, she moved to the United States to work for the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, producing high-quality fabrics and carpets for the newly built Kingswood Girls' School. In 1933, she returned to Sweden where she opened a textile business in her native Algutsboda, employing some 20 embroiderers and weavers to create textiles for churches.
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Agnes de Frumerie
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- sculptor
- Biography
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Agnes Eleonora Augusta Emilia de Frumerie was a Swedish artist who spent much of her career in France.
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Sven Scholander
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- sculptorcomposersingerlutenist
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Sven Scholander was a Swedish musician, singer, composer and sculptor. His musical innovations led to a revival in Swedish lute playing whilst his solo performances of Carl Michael Bellman reintroduced the works in their original form.
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Hans Ehrich
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- industrial designer
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Hans Ehrich is a Swedish industrial designer. Together with Tom Ahlström he, in 1968, founded A&E Design, a company which Ehrich still (2022) manages. Between 1982 and 2002 he was the CEO of the sister company Interdesign in Stockholm. Internationally, he is regarded one of Sweden's leading product designers, and is referred to as the “Grand Seigneur” of Swedish industrial design. Ehrich is living in Stockholm and Berlin.
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Marik Vos-Lundh
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- paintercostume designerscenographerproduction designer
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Marie-Anne "Marik" Vos-Lundh was a Swedish costume designer, production designer, and set designer. She worked extensively in stage and occasionally screen productions throughout her career, which spanned over three decades, and was best known to international audiences for her frequent collaborations with director Ingmar Bergman. Vos-Lundh has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design three times for her work on Bergman's films, winning once for Fanny and Alexander (1982).
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Ida Trotzig
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- authorethnographerartist
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Ida Bertha Trotzig née Magnét was a Swedish photographer, ethnographer, Japanologist, author and painter. From 1888, together with her husband Herman Trotzig, she spent 33 years in Japan, acquiring a profound interest in Japanese culture, especially the tea ceremony and flower arrangement. On her return to Sweden, in 1935 she managed the establishment of a Japanese tea garden near the Ethnographical Museum in the Djurgården park in central Stockholm.
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Helena Hernmarck
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- designerartisttextile artist
- Biography
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Helena Hernmarck is a Swedish tapestry artist who lives and works in the United States. She is best known for her monumental tapestries designed for architectural settings.
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Carl Fagerberg
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Carl Vilhelm Fagerberg was a Swedish sculptor. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Barbro Nilsson
- Occupations
- textile artist
- Biography
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Barbro Nilsson née Lundberg was a Swedish textile artist who is remembered in particular for her large tapestries, including the one she produced in collaboration with Sven Erixson for the Gothenburg Concert Hall in 1939. She was active as a teacher at Konstfack and as head of Märta Måås-Fjetterström's weaving establishment in Båstad. Nilsson produced her own rugs and church textiles, many with motives inspired by nature.
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Gerda Tirén
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- artistillustrator
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Gerda Maria Tirén, née Rydberg was a Swedish painter and illustrator. She did landscapes from France and Sweden, children's portraits, and genre scenes. Her illustrations were often featured in the magazine Jultomten (Santa Claus).
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Mona Morales-Schildt
- Occupations
- glass artist
- Biography
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Monica Ulrika Morales-Schildt (March 1, 1908 – February 23, 1999) was a Swedish designer and glass artist, best known for her Ventana series of vases. Morales-Schildt's works are held by various museums in Sweden and internationally.
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Fanny Falkner
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- painteractor
- Biography
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Fanny Johanna Maria Falkner was a Swedish actress and miniaturist.
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Amanda Sidvall
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Amanda Carolina Vilhelmina Sidwall was a Swedish painter and illustrator. She studied in Paris in the 1870s and had works exhibited at the Salon in the early 1880s.
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Anshelm Leonard Schultzberg
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Anshelm Schultzberg was a Swedish painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Alice Nordin
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1886-1890
- Occupations
- sculptordesigner
- Biography
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Alice Nordin was a Swedish sculptor.
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Elin Wallin
- Occupations
- drawerpainter
- Biography
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Elin Kristina Wallin was a Swedish artist and drawer. She was married to the Swedish artist David Wallin.
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Helene Schmitz
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Helene Schmitz is a Swedish photographer born 1960. In her work, Helene Schmitz is interested in how nature is described in science, art and literature. Schmitz investigates how these activities filters our understanding and her work often makes us question our preconceptions of nature. After graduating with a BA in History of Art and Cinema, she started working with photography. Today, Schmitz regularly holds exhibitions in Scandinavia and in France and her pictures have been published world-wide in National Geographic.
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Agda Österberg
- Occupations
- designerpainterdrawertextile artist
- Biography
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Agda Elisabeth Österberg was a Swedish textile artist who was a prominent figure in the production of religious textiles. In 1933, she was appointed artistic director at Axevalla-Varnhem Slöjd. She took the business over in 1935, changing its name first to Firma Agda Österberg and later to Tre Bäcker, producing thousands of church textiles up to the 1970s. The firm also made rugs in Österberg's colourful abstract style.
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Erik Tryggelin
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1896-1899
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainterdrawerphotographer
- Biography
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Erik Viktor Tryggelin, born 25 June 1878 in Stockholm, died 9 August 1962 in Stockholm, was a Swedish artist, drawer and photographer.
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Anton Genberg
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Anton Jonsson Genberg was a Swedish painter in the Naturalist style who specialized in mountain landscapes.
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Peter David Edstrom
- Occupations
- sculptorauthor
- Biography
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Peter David Edstrom was an American sculptor.
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Ida Matton
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1881-1887
- Occupations
- sculptorartist
- Biography
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Ida Elisabeth Matton, was a Swedish sculptor.
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Carl Skånberg
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Carl Emmerik Skånberg was a Swedish painter. Despite a serious illness that caused him a great deal of suffering, he was a prolific painter and one of the first artists in Sweden to be influenced by Impressionism.
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John Österlund
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainterconservatordrawer
- Biography
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John Österlund was a Swedish artist and curator.
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Bernhard Österman
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainterdrawercurator
- Biography
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Gustaf Bernhard Österman was a Swedish painter, illustrator and curator. His twin brother, Emil, was also an artist.
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Ingrid Dessau
- Occupations
- textile artist
- Biography
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Ingrid Dessau was a Swedish textile artist.
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Peter Adolf Persson
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Peter Adolf Persson was a Swedish painter known for his Skåne landscapes.
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Sara Szyber
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- interior designer
- Biography
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Sara Rebecka Torsson Szyber, born on June 16, 1963, is a Swedish interior and furniture designer.
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Gerda Sprinchorn
- Occupations
- sculptorceramicist
- Biography
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Gertrud Linnéa Sprinchorn was a Swedish sculptor and ceramist. She is best known for her sculptures Cleopatra and Helig dans, the former of which won her the Royal Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
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Sigrid Blomberg
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1888
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Emma Emilia Sigrid Charlotte Blomberg was a Swedish sculptor who focused on religious art. One of her most notable creations is Bebådelsen (The Annunciation, 1900), a marble statue depicting the Virgin Mary on her knees in prayer, her head turned upwards. It was the first sculpture by a woman to be acquired by the Swedish National Museum. After carving the wooden Madonna del Fuoco (Madonna of the Fire) in 1912, she had to abandon sculpture as a result of poor sight. Thereafter she made a living as a bookbinder.
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Ida von Schulzenheim
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1877-1878
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Ida Eléonora Davida von Schulzenheim was a Swedish painter. Her foremost motif was paintings of animals.
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Eigil Schwab
- Occupations
- artistdrawer
- Biography
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Eigil Schwab was a Swedish painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Maja Sjöström
- Occupations
- textile artist
- Biography
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Maria Sjöström (1868–1961) was a prominent Swedish textile artist from the 1890s to the 1930s. In particular, she designed intricate interior decorations for the new Stockholm City Hall. These included enormous silk tapestries which were woven at the Luigi Bevilacqua Textile Company in Venice. Following the opening of the city hall in 1923, Sjöström moved to Rome where she spent the rest of her life, ultimately in poverty, dismissed by the Swedes for her belief in Mussolini. Her reputation was however restored in the 2000s.
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Birgit Skiöld
- Occupations
- artistillustrator
- Biography
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Birgit Skiöld was a Swedish master printmaker and modernist artist who ran the highly successful Print Workshop in the basement of 28 Charlotte Street, London from 1958 to the late 1970s. She was a noted member of the London art scene during that period, and her life is commemorated by an eponymous award for innovation in printmaking.
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Tekla Nordström
- Occupations
- xylographerengraver
- Biography
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Tekla Wilhelmina Nordström, née Lindeström was a Swedish xylographer.
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Stig Åsberg
- Occupations
- graphic artistillustratordrawer
- Biography
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Stig Åsberg was a Swedish graphic artist.
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Harriet Sundström
- Occupations
- paintersculptorgraphic artist
- Biography
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Harriet Sundström, was a Swedish landscape artist.
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Ellen Jolin
- Occupations
- paintergraphic artistwriter
- Biography
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(Maria Helena) Ellen Jolin (16 June 1854 – 25 May 1939) was a Swedish writer, painter and graphic artist.
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Wilhelmina Wendt
- Occupations
- silversmithdesigner
- Biography
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Wilhelmina Wendt, commonly known as Tiddit, was a Swedish silversmith. She was the first woman in Sweden to be granted the title of "master silversmith". From the late 1920s, she designed trays, serving dishes, bowls, jugs and jewellery. In the mid 1940s, she settled in Perstorp where she combined her father's black insulation material "isolit" with her own thin silver designs, producing artefacts in what she called "silverisolit".
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Per Emanuel Werming
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1860-1862
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- architect
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Per Emanuel Werming was a Swedish architect.
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Svante Kede
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- painter
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Svante Gustav Adolf Kede, was a Swedish artist and painter.
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Eva Löwstädt-Åström
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- paintergraphic artistdrawer
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Eva Matilda Löwstädt-Åström was a Swedish painter and graphic artist. Several different dates and years are given for her birth. This one is taken from her tombstone.
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Bror Geijer Göthe
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- textile artistpainter
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Bror Geijer Göthe was a Swedish artist, painter and textile artist who revived late medieval methods.
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Charles Lachs
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- painter
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Charles Georg Lachs was a Bavarian-Swedish visual artist. Specialising in oil and etching, his motifs ranged from landscapes and portraits to humble working class areas around fin de siècle Stockholm.
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Emil Westman
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- paintergraphic artistdrawer
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Emil Westman was a Swedish-Danish artist.
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Ida Törnström
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- painterwriterdrawing teacherdrawer
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Ida Albertina Törnström, who wrote poetry under the pseudonym Sölve, was a Swedish writer, teacher and painter.
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Bo Johnsson
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- artistswimmerdrawing teacher
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Bo Johan Edvard Magnus "Bosse" Johnsson was a Swedish swimmer. He competed in the men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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Carin Wästberg
- Enrolled in the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- Studied in 1880-1885
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- textile artisthandicrafter
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Carin Helena Wästberg was a Swedish textile artist who helped to revive interest in textile arts in Sweden inspired by local peasant techniques and the developments she had seen in England. As its leader from 1904, she developed the Friends of Handicraft association into the country's top textile producer, creating a new production technique in collaboration with Maja Sjöström. Under her leadership, the association produced many notable works for public buildings in Stockholm, including those she herself designed in 1915 for the Stockholm Court House.
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Karin Ageman
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- designereducatordrawerillustrator
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Karin Charlotta Ageman née Petersson was a Swedish artist and illustrator who is remembered for her work as a bookbinder, poster designer and wallpaper pattern creator. In 1939, she was responsible for designing the catalogue for the Swedish exhibits at the 1939 New York World's Fair. From 1945, she taught advertising and book design at Stockholm's Konstfack.
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John Sjösvärd
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- artistdrawing teacher
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John Sjösvärd was a Swedish painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
