Marianne Elisabet Richter Lindroth (1916–2010) was a Swedish

textile artist Textile arts are arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects. Textiles have been a fundamental part of human life since the beginning of civilization. The methods and materials use ...

who from 1942 was engaged as a designer at

Märta Måås-Fjetterström Märta Livia Vilhelmina Måås-Fjetterström (21 June 1873 – 13 April 1941) was a leading Swedish textile artist in the early 20th-century. She is remembered in particular for the weaving studio she opened in Båstad in 1919 and for the decorati ...

's workshop. There she produced flatweaves,

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s and

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. She is remembered in particular for her rya rugs and her large wall hangings. Her patterns have since become classics in Swedish textile arts.

Biography

Born on 25 August 1916 in

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, Marianne Elisabet Richter was the daughter of the merchant Carl Emil Leonard Richter (1880–1974) and his wife Sonja Elisabeth née Baagöe (1892–1985). She was the second of seven children. Her daughter Sara Marianne, born in 1949, also became a textile artist. After training as a textile artist at the

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and an apprenticeship in

's workshop in

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, her first job was with the handicraft association Svensk Hemslöjd in

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. In 1942,

Barbro Nilsson Barbro Nilsson née Lundberg (1899–1983) was a Swedish textile artist who is remembered in particular for her large tapestries, including the one she produced in collaboration with Sven Erixson for the Gothenburg Concert Hall in 1939. She was ...

invited her to work as a designer in the Båstad workshop where her first creation was ''Forsythia'', a rug made using the flossa technique. She produced designs for rugs and other textiles there until the mid-1970s. In 1955, at the Helsingborg exhibition, she presented her large tapestry ''Båtar'', depicting sailing ships. One of her most significant works is the tapestry commissioned by the Swedish government for a conference room at the

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. Measuring 200 square metres, when it was hung in 1951 it was said to be the world's largest tapestry. Other notable works included tapestries for Swedish embassies, her ''Strandvägsskutor'' for

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depicting tall-master ships and ''Korn och humle'' (Corn and Hops) for the Swedish brewers' association. In 1974, she married Carl Hildebrand Lindroth, an entomology professor at

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who died in 1979. Marianne Elisabet Lindroth died on 24 November 2010 in

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and is buried at Brunnby cemetery.

References

External links

Marianne Richter at FJ Hakimian with illustrations
{{DEFAULTSORT:Richter, Marianne 1916 births 2010 deaths Swedish textile designers 20th-century Swedish women artists 20th-century Swedish textile artists 21st-century Swedish women artists 21st-century Swedish artists People from Helsingborg