Alma Constantia Arnell (2 May 1857 – 13 September 1934) was a Swedish painter.

Biography

Born in Säbrå,

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, Arnell studied in

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at Axel Kulle's school of painting under

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and

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as well as in Paris at the

Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...

and for several years in Rome. In 1904 she was elected to the

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women's association. In the late 1890s and early 1900s, at least until 1907, Alma Arnell shared a studio with

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and

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in the so-called ('Studio Building') in Stockholm, which the

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owned at

Hamngatan Hamngatan (Swedish: ''Port Street'') is a street in central Stockholm. It goes from Sergels torg down to Nybroplan, past NK department store, Kungsträdgården, Norrmalmstorg, and Berzelii Park. The Djurgården line travels along this street be ...

5 at the intersection of Hamngatan and

Kungsträdgården Kungsträdgården (Swedish language, Swedish for "King's Garden") is a park in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is colloquially known as ''Kungsan''. The park's central location and its outdoor cafés makes it one of the most popular hangouts ...

. The property was the cultural centre of Stockholm at the time. The same building also housed Blanch's Café and , where the battle between the Royal Academy of Fine Arts' conventional view of art and the Konstärsförbundet's French-inspired opposition movement took place. Arnell died in 1934 in Stockholm. She was primarily a

genre painter Genre painting (or petit genre) is the painting of genre art, which depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity ca ...

, and a

portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better r ...

and

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a cohe ...

. Some of her work is on display at

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References

1857 births 1934 deaths 19th-century Swedish painters 20th-century Swedish painters People from Härnösand Municipality Swedish genre painters Swedish landscape painters Swedish portrait painters Swedish expatriates in France Swedish expatriates in Italy Members of Nya Idun 20th-century Swedish women painters 19th-century Swedish women painters Artists from Västernorrland County {{Sweden-painter-stub