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Konstfack
Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden. History Konstfack has had several different names since it was founded in 1844 by the ethnologist and artist Nils Månsson Mandelgren as a part-time art school for artisans, under the name "Söndags-Rit-skola för Handtverkare" ("Sunday Drawing School for Artisans"). The school was taken over by ''Svenska Slöjdföreningen'' (today known as Svensk form) the next year and renamed ''Svenska Slöjdföreningens skola''. In 1857, the first two female students (Sofi Granberg and Matilda Andersson) were accepted, and the following year female students officially were invited to apply. It became a state school and was renamed ''Slöjdskolan i Stockholm'' (Handicraft School in Stockholm) in 1859; and in the context of a thorough reorganisation, where the school was divided into four departments in 1879, to ''Tekniska skolan'' (The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stig Lindberg
Stig Lindberg (17 August 1916 – 7 April 1982) was a Swedish ceramic designer, glass designer, textile designer, industrial designer, painter, teacher, and illustrator. One of Sweden's most important postwar designers, Lindberg created whimsical studio ceramics and graceful tableware lines during a long career with the Gustavsberg, Värmdö, Gustavsberg pottery factory. Biography Stig Lindberg was born on 17 August 1916 in Umeå, Sweden. Lindberg studied painting at the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (now Konsfack). In 1937, he went to work at Gustavsbergs fabriker, Gustavsberg Fabriker under Wilhelm Kåge. In 1949, he was named Kåge's successor as art director. From this period until he left Gustavsberg in 1980, he designed individual ceramic items, as well as factory produced ranges and lines of dinnerware. He achieved fame for his eccentric forms and whimsical decoration. From 1957 until 1970, he was a head teacher at Konstfack. Deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Schlyter
Anna Ingrid Caroline Schlyter, (born 9October 1961) is a Swedes, Swedish artist focusing on sculpture and installations. She is best known for her furniture sculptures that have been exhibited in numerous countries. Early years and education Caroline Schlyter was educated at Konstfack, Department of Fine Art and at Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. In 1988, at the beginning of her studies, Schlyter created a rolled steel prototype of a chair that she named ''Lilla h'' (known as ''Little h''). It was first exhibited at The House of Culture (Stockholm), The House of Culture, Stockholm in 1989. The chair was shown as an installation where it was covered with of red velvet from the wall down over the chair and out onto the floor. That same year, Schlyter entered the international art/design scene when participating in an international furniture design competition in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Asahikawa, Japan, where she received an Award Winning Entry for her chair ''Little h'', now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Billing
Johanna Billing (born 1973) is a Swedish artist. Her work has been featured in major group exhibitions such as Dokumenta 12, Istanbul Biennial (2005) and the 50th Venice Biennale. Life and work Johanna Billing was born 1973 in Jönköping, Sweden. She lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Billing studied at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden graduating in 1999. Recent works include: ''In Purple'' (2019), ''Pulheim Jam Session'' (2015) and ''I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I die'' (2012). Other significant works include: ''I'm Lost Without Your Rhythm'' (2009), ''Another Album'' (2006), ''You Don't Love Me Yet'' (2003) and ''Magical World'' (2005). Many of the film's soundtracks exist as soundtrack records published by the German label Apparent Extent. Between 1998 and 2010 Billing ran the independent record label Make it Happen. The interest in music is also expressed through the long term and ongoing touring project ''You Don’t Love Me Yet'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annika Von Hausswolff
Annika von Hausswolff (born 30 March 1967) is a Swedish visual artist, known for photography and installation art. She studied at Sven Winquists School of Photography in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1987 to 1989; Konstfack in Stockholm from 1991 to 1994 and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm from 1995 to 1996. Von Hausswolff received a ten-year grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee in 2002. She has had solo shows at the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark; Konsthallen-Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden; Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden; and the Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden. She was awarded a solo show at the Venice Biennale in 1999. References 1967 births Living people Konstfack alumni Swedish contemporary artists Swedish installation artists Swedish photographers Annika Annika is a feminine given name with multiple origins in different cultures. It is a Swedish diminutive for Anna, derived in the 15th century from Anneke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilma Af Klint
Hilma af Klint (; 26 October 1862 – 21 October 1944) was a Swedish artist and mysticism, mystic whose paintings are considered among the first major Abstract art, abstract works in Western art history. A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Wassily Kandinsky, Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Malevich and Piet Mondrian, Mondrian. She belonged to a group called "The Five": a circle of women inspired by Theosophy who shared a belief in the importance of trying to contact the so-called "Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, High Masters"—often by way of séances. Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas. Early life Hilma af Klint was the fourth child of Mathilda af Klint (née Sonntag) and Captain Victor af Klint, a Swedish naval commander, and she spent summers with her family at their manor, "Hanmora", on the island of Adelsö in Lake Mälaren. In these idyllic surroundings she c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.5 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's Gros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Milles
Carl Milles (; 23 June 1875 – 19 September 1955) was a Swedes, Swedish sculpture, 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. Biography He was born as Carl Wilhelm Emil Andersson, son of lieutenant August Emil Sebastian "Mille" Andersson (1843–1910) and his wife Walborg Alfhild Maria Tisell (1846–1879), at Knivsta Municipality, Lagga outside Uppsala in 1875. In 1897 he made what he thought would be a temporary stop in Paris on his way to Chile, where he was due to manage a school of gymnastics. However, he remained in Paris, where he studied art, working in Auguste Rodin's studio a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telefonplan
Telefonplan metro station ("Telephone Square") is an outdoor station on Line 14 in the Stockholm metro. The station is located in the borough of Hägersten. It was opened on 5 April 1964 as part of the first stretch of Metro 2, between T-Centralen and Fruängen. Unlike most of the stations lying nearby, namely among others Midsommarkransen and Hägerstensåsen, the station's name does not refer to any specific area or a specific suburb. Instead, the station's name refers to a small square situated just west of the station's main entrance. The subway station initially mainly served the Ericsson headquarters, Ericsson's main factory and the nearby serviced apartments of its workers. Ericsson's headquarters moved to Kista in 2003. Nowadays, the facilities of the factory have been taken over by the Swedish University College of Arts, and there are plans to build a design center close to the station. The area immediately east of the station is partially a construction site for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Valtonen
Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna of East Anglia, King (died c.654) * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) * Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425) * Anna of Cilli (1386–1416) * Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418) * Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432–1462) * Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1514) * Anna, Duchess of Prussia (1576–1625) * Anna of Russia (1693–1740) * Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781) * Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1783–1857) * Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) * Anna (feral child) (1932–1942) * Anna (rapper) (born 2003) * Anna (singer) (born 1987) * C. N. Annadurai (1909–1969), Indian politician, known as Anna (elder brother) * Sunil Shetty (born 1961), Indian actor, known by his nickname Anna Places Australia * Hundred of Anna, a cadastral dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Bergman
Annie Bergman (15 December 1889 – 11 January 1987) was a Swedish artist, writer, and children's book author. Early life and education Annie Bergman was born on 15 December 1889 in Liège, Belgium to Ingeborg Billquist and William Bergman. Her mother was from Gothenburg and was artistic. Her father was an artillery lieutenant who invented and produced weapons in the late nineteenth century. The Bergman family spent a short time in Paris then moved to Stockholm, William Bergman's home town. Bergman finished secondary education in 1907, then undertook preparatory art courses at Tekniska skolan and at Caleb Althin's painting school. Both parents encouraged her interest in art and supported her choice of career. In 1908 she began a four-year course of study at Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. She studied alongside Elsa Björkman-Goldschmidt, Siri Derkert, Harriet Löwenhjelm, Ragnhild Nordensten, Gerda Nordling, and Elvi Tondén. Her tutors included Axel Jungstedt for figur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamma Andersson
Mamma Andersson (born 1962) is a Swedish contemporary artist. She is based in Stockholm and is married to artist Jockum Nordström. Biography Born Anna Karin Andersson, she drew and painted from an early age without any family members being interested in art. Andersson's birthplace and childhood home of Luleå is in North Sweden, near the Polar circle. She studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and her nickname Mamma ("Mother") was added at that time to differentiate herself from another student with the same name. She was a mother during her time at art school and has two sons with artist Jockum Nordström. She started by painting landscapes because that was what she saw daily as she pushed her kids around in the pram. She worked as a guard at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and was influenced by work of Dick Bengtsson. To learn to paint she found she had to engross herself in others work and cites John-Erik Franzén, Enno Hallek and her "greatest teacher" Dick Ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Bäckström
Miriam Bäckström (born 1967) is a Swedish conceptual photographer. Bäckström was born in Stockholm in 1967. Bäckström studied history of art at Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social ... before enrolling at Stockholm's Academy of Photography in 1994. Bäckström first came to notice as a conceptual photographer in the 1990s. References 1967 births Living people 20th-century Swedish photographers 21st-century Swedish photographers Photographers from Stockholm {{photographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
