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Sigrid Hjerten

Sigrid Hjerten (1885 - 1948) was active/lived in Sweden, France.  Sigrid Hjerten is known for Modernist painting and sculpture, high color still life.

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Sigrid Hjertén is considered a major figure in Swedish modernist painting. Periodically she was highly productive and participated in 106 exhibitions. She worked as an artist for 30 years before succumbing to complications from a lobotomy for schizophrenia.

Sigrid Hjertén was born in Sundsvall in 1885. She studied at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and graduated as a drawing teacher. At a studio party in 1909, Hjertén met her future husband, twenty-year old Isaac Grünewald, who had already studied one year with Henri Matisse in Paris. Grünewald convinced her that she would do herself more justice as a painter. Later that year she went to Matisse's art school as well.

As she studied under Henri Matisse in Paris, she was impressed by the way he and Paul Cézanne dealt with colour. This shows in her painting in contrasting colour fields and simplified contours, her way of achieving the greatest possible expressiveness. Her aesthetic intentions h   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10022 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Sigrid Hjerten

   Sigrid Hjerten  Born:  1885 - Sundsvall, Sweden
Died:   1948 - Stockholm, Sweden
Known for:  Modernist painting and sculpture, high color still life

Sigrid Hjertén is considered a major figure in Swedish modernist painting. Periodically she was highly productive and participated in 106 exhibitions. She worked as an artist for 30 years before succumbing to complications from a lobotomy for schizophrenia.

Sigrid Hjertén was born in Sundsvall in 1885. She studied at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and graduated as a drawing teacher. At a studio party in 1909, Hjertén met her future husband, twenty-year old Isaac Grünewald, who had already studied one year with Henri Matisse in Paris. Grünewald convinced her that she would do herself more justice as a painter. Later that year she went to Matisse's art school as well.

As she studied under Henri Ma  ...  Displaying 750 of 10022 characters.

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