Gerda Wallander

Gerda Charlotta Wallander
Berry Picking Children a Summer Day by Gerda Wallander

Gerda Charlotta Wallander (17 August 1860 - 14 January 1926) was a Swedish portrait and genre painter.[1]

Biography

Wallander was born in Stockholm in 17 August 1860. She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts during the period of 1879 to 1884, and then in Paris. She had several exhibitions of his landscape paintings. Her work, which included city motifs and landscapes, is held in the collections of Norrköping, Linköping, Jönköping and Kristianstad museums.[2]

In 1886, she married her cousin, the artist and designer Alf Wallander. Their son, Sven Wallander, was an architect. After 1905, she lived in Villa Gärdsgården and in Stocksund. She died in Stockholm in 1926. The family is buried in the Solna Church cemetery.

References

  1. ↑ Larsson 1992, p. 180.
  2. ↑ "Gerda Charlotta Wallander" (in Swedish). Konstnärslexikonett Amanda. Retrieved 30 March 2017.

Bibliography

  • Larsson, Carl (October 1992). Carl Larsson: the autobiography of Sweden's most beloved artist. Penfield Press. ISBN 978-0-941016-91-9.
  • Media related to Gerda Wallander at Wikimedia Commons
  • Gerda Wallander at Projekt Runeberg, from Nordisk familjebok, Uggleupplagan. 31. Ural - Vertex, pages 463-464 (1921). (in Swedish)
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