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Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick
Emma Chadwick, née Emma Hilma Amalia Löwstädt (10 August 1855, Stockholm – 2 January 1932, Avignon), was a Swedish painter who specialized in genre scenes and portraits. Biography She was the granddaughter of Carl Teodor Löwstädt, an artist and printmaker who was originally from Swedish Pomerania. Her father, was a master tailor. She began her artistic education at the Technical School, then studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1874 to 1880.Emma HA Löwstädt Chadwick in the Swedish biographical archives In 1881, after having spent the previous summers on the French coast, she went to Paris to finish her studies at the with [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush. Other implements, such as palette knives, sponges, airbrushes, the artist's fingers, or even a dripping technique that uses gravity may be used. One who produces paintings is called a painter. In art, the term "painting" describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate other materials, in single or multiple form, including sand, clay, paper, cardboard, newspaper, plaster, gold leaf, and even entire objects. Painting is an important form of visual arts, visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, Composition (visual art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Sidwall
Amanda Carolina Vilhelmina Sidwall (25 July 1844 – 11 January 1892) was a Swedish painter and illustrator. She studied in Paris in the 1870s and had works exhibited at the Salon (Paris), Salon in the early 1880s. Biography Sidwall was born in Stockholm on 25 July 1844, the daughter of tanner Sven Lorentz Sidwall and his wife Frederica Christina. Together with her sister Mathilda, she first studied ornamental and figure drawing in 1860 at the Konstfack, Arts and Crafts School in Stockholm. She was among the first group of students to study at the women's department of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts when it opened in 1864. Together with fellow-student Anna Nordgren, she then continued her studies under Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian in Paris (1874–77), developing a much freer style, as can be seen in her portrait of Mina Carlson-Bredberg. She remained in Paris for several years, receiving good reviews and exhibiting at the Musée du Luxembourg, where she sold tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Swedish Painters
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artists From Stockholm
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business to refer to actors, musicians, singers, dancers and other performers, in which they are known as ''Artiste'' instead. ''Artiste'' (French) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. The use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts such as critics' reviews; "author" is generally used instead. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older, broader meanings of the word "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry * A follower of a pursuit in which skill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courmes Family
The Courmes family (formerly: ''de Corma'', ''Corme'', ''Cormesse'' in the feminine, and ''Courme'') is a French family. Their origins come from the , Grasse, in Lower Provence. His birthplace is the neighboring village of Courmes and his filiation followed and proven, in agnatic parentage, since 1580, and followed since 1176. Etymology The name appears for the first time in the ''Gallia Christiana nova''; on September 29, 1176, P. de Corma witnessed the signing of a charter between Bertrand de Grasse and Bertrand 1st, bishop of Antibes. Marie-Thérèse Morlet defines it as a name of locality of origin and more precisely, in this category, a name of provenance, meaning "the one who comes from Courmes". Albert Dauzat describes the meaning of the name as old Provençal, corma, cornouille. A place planted with dogwood. History The existence of a first family of this name was identified by Gilette Gauthier-Ziegler, Archivist-Paleographer. She observes that "from the end of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Deaths
Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hirohito of Japan. The Kuomintang's official newspaper runs an editorial expressing regret that the attempt failed, which is used by the Japanese as a pretext to attack Shanghai later in the month. * January 22 – The 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising begins; it is suppressed by the government of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. * January 24 – Marshal Pietro Badoglio declares the end of Libyan resistance. * January 26 – British submarine aircraft carrier sinks with the loss of all 60 onboard on exercise in Lyme Bay in the English Channel. * January 28 – January 28 incident: Conflict between Japan and China in Shanghai. * January 31 – Japanese warships arrive in Nanking. February * February 2 ** A general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1855 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city.' * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in modern-day Minneapolis, a predecessor of the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. ** The 8.2–8.3 Wairarapa earthquake claims between five and nine lives near the Cook Strait area of New Zealand. * January 26 – The Point No Point Treaty is signed in the Washington Territory. * January 27 – The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. * January 29 – Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, over the management of the Crimean War. * February 5 – Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * February 11 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia. * February 12 – Michigan State University (the "pioneer" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artnet
Artnet.com is an art market website. It is operated by Artnet Worldwide Corporation, which has headquarters in New York City. It is owned by Artnet AG, a German publicly-traded company based in Berlin that is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company increased revenues by 25.3% to €17.3 million in 2015 compared with a year before. Company history The company was founded as Centrox Corporation in 1989 by Pierre Sernet, a French art collector who developed database software which allowed images of artworks to be associated with market prices. Hans Neuendorf, a German art dealer, began to invest in the company in the 1990s; he became chairman in 1992 and chief executive officer in 1995. That same year, the name was changed to Artnet Worldwide Corporation. It was taken over by Artnet AG in 1998. Neuendorf's son, Jacob Pabst, became chief executive officer in July 2012. Website Artnet operates an international research and trading platform for the art market, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Löwstädt-Åström
Eva Matilda Löwstädt-Åström (5 May 1864 – 5 May 1942) was a Swedish painter and graphic artist. Several different dates and years are given for her birth. This one is taken from her tombstone. Biography Eva Matilda Löwstädt was born in Stockholm in 1864. Her father, , was a master tailor. Her grandfather, Carl Teodor Löwstädt, was also a painter and graphic artist. Her sister, Hilma Amalia Löwstädt (better known as Emma Chadwick) also became an artist. After her primary education, she studied at the Kunsthochschule Tekniska Skolan (now known as the Konstfack) from 1885 to 1886. She also studied etching with Axel Tallberg. From 1887 to 1890, she continued her studies at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julian in Paris. This was followed by a three-year stay in Italy. Upon returning to Sweden, she married Ludvig Åström. She became associated with the Konstnärsförbundets skola, and participated in many of their exhibitions. In the 1890s, she returned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that Columbus took to the New World. Chicago won the right to host the fair over several competing cities, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and St. Louis. The exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on American architecture, the arts, American industrial optimism, and Chicago's image. The layout of the Chicago Columbian Exposition was predominantly designed by John Wellborn Root, Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Charles B. Atwood. It was the prototype of what Burnham and his colleagues thought a city should be. It was designed to follow Beaux-Arts principles of design, namely ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
