Gerda Charlotta Wallander (17 August 1860 – 14 January 1926) was a Swedish portrait and genre painter.

Biography

Wallander was born in

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 ...

, Sweden. She was the daughter of Carl Emanuel Wallander and Fanny Albertina Hübner. She was the niece of artist and art professor Josef Wilhelm Wallander. She studied at the

Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (), commonly called the Royal Academy, is located in Stockholm, Sweden. An independent organization that promotes the development of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other fine arts, it is one of seve ...

during the period of 1879 to 1884, and then in Paris. She had several exhibitions of her landscape paintings. Her work, which included city motifs and landscapes, is held in the collections of Norrköping, Linköping, Jönköping and Kristianstad museums. In 1886, she married her cousin, the artist and designer

Alf Wallander Alf Wallander (11 October 1862, Stockholm - 29 September 1914, Stockholm) was a Swedish painter, graphic designer, craftsman, and art conservator. Biography He was born to the architect Adolf Wallander and his wife, Hildegard Sofia née Blom.

. Their son, Sven Wallander, was an architect. After 1905, she lived at Villa Gärdsgården at

Stocksund Stocksund () is an upper-class suburb in Metropolitan Stockholm, Sweden. Located immediately across the Edsviken and Stocksundet from Bergshamra, Stocksund is one of four parts of Danderyd Municipality north of Stockholm, which is the mos ...

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municipality. She died in Stockholm in 1926. The family is buried in the

Solna Church Solna Church () is a so-called round church in Solna Municipality near Stockholm, Sweden. It is part of Solna Parish in the Diocese of Stockholm. The church is located on the headland between Brunnsviken and Ulvsundasjön, at the southern end of ...

cemetery.

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Gerda Wallander
at Projekt Runeberg, from Nordisk familjebok, Uggleupplagan. 31. Ural - Vertex, pages 463-464 (1921). (in Swedish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallander, Gerda Charlotta 1860 births 1926 deaths Swedish portrait painters Swedish genre painters Swedish women painters Swedish painters Painters from Stockholm