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Esther Gehlin née Henriques (1892–1949) was a Danish-Swedish painter of Jewish descent whose water colours and oils include
Examples of Gehlin's artwork on Artnet
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gehlin, Esther 1892 births 1949 deaths People from Helsingborg Painters from Copenhagen 20th-century Danish painters Danish women painters 20th-century Swedish painters Swedish women painters Swedish textile artists 20th-century Danish women artists 20th-century Danish artists Danish people of Jewish descent Swedish people of Jewish descent Jewish women artists Still life painters 20th-century Swedish women Danish emigrants to Sweden
Esther Gehlin née Henriques (1892–1949) was a Danish-Swedish painter of Jewish descent whose water colours and oils include still life
A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...
s, interiors, portraits and landscapes. From 1922, she and her artist husband Hugo Gehlin settled in the Swedish town of Helsingborg where local artists and writers frequently gathered in their home. In the 1940s, she created textile appliqués inspired by early Christian art.
Biography
Born in the Frederiksberg district ofCopenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
on 24 March 1892, Esther Henriques was the daughter of the factory director Michael Emil Martin Henriques and Julie Christiane Poulsen. Thanks to her father's success in producing knitted products, she was brought up in a well-to-do middle-class Jewish home. After attending The Technical Institute from 1908, she was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1911, graduating in 1915.
Gehlin married the Swedish painter Hugo Gehlin (1889–1953) in June 1917. In 1920, they spent a year in Italy visiting cities such as Assisi
Assisi (, also , ; from la, Asisium) is a town and ''comune'' of Italy in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio.
It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, born aroun ...
and Ravenna
Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the cap ...
on a study trip. On their return, they held a joint exhibition at Stockholm's Gummeson Gallery. In 1922 they settled in Helsingborg, first in Raus and from 1925 in a house on S:t Clemens gata which became a venue for local artists, writers and actors to socialize.
For many years, Gehlin painted in water colours and oils, creating portraits, still lifes and landscapes, the latter inspired by views from her home which overlooked the city's port, houses and gardens. Her work attracted generally favourable reviews, especially her still lifes. The same was true of her textile appliqués which she created from the late 1930s. Works by Esther Gehlin can be seen at the Nationalmuseum
Nationalmuseum (or National Museum of Fine Arts) is the national gallery of Sweden, located on the peninsula Blasieholmen in central Stockholm.
The museum's operations stretches far beyond the borders of Blasieholmen, the nationalmuseum manag ...
, Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet ("the Museum of Modern Art"), Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009, the museum opened a new branch in Malmö in t ...
, Malmö Art Museum
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and in Helsingborg's museums. A retrospective was held at Helsingborg's Vikingsberg Art Museum in 1952, the year Gehlin would have turned 60.
Esther Gehlin died on 23 October 1949 in Helsingborg where she is buried in the Raus Cemetery.
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Examples of Gehlin's artwork on Artnet
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