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Ebba Maria Sassnitza Wallenberg (11 April 1896 – 4 October 1966) was a Swedish artist.
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* * * {{Authority control (arts), country=SV 1896 births 1966 deaths Swedish women artists
Ebba Maria Sassnitza Wallenberg (11 April 1896 – 4 October 1966) was a Swedish artist.
Biography
Wallenberg was known for her romance withNils von Dardel
Nils Elias Kristofer von Dardel (25 October 1888 – 25 May 1943), sometimes known as Nils de Dardel, was a 20th-century Swedish Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter and grandson of the famous Swedish painter Fritz von Dardel.
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and as the main motive of several pictures which Dardel painted during the period 1917–1920. Her third given name was inspired by the ferry-line Trelleborg-Sassnitz, of which her father, Gustaf Wallenberg, had been CEO in the 1890s. He later was the Swedish envoy to Japan
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; it was during one of those trips to Japan, in 1917, that his daughter met Dardel at the annual imperial cherry-blossom festival.
Wallenberg was engaged to Dardel in secret, but the engagement was annulled in 1919 by her family when they told Dardel that he did not meet the requirements to be married into the Wallenberg family. He was not considered useful to the Wallenberg company (indeed, the risk that Dardel would take advantage of being married into the family was considered very high), and rumours about his nightlife had reached Nita's father. The broken engagement heavily affected Dardel's painting and resulted in several pictures of womanly figures that resemble Nita.
"Nita" Wallenberg appears in some of Dardel's work, including ''Yngling i svart, Flicka i vitt'' from 1919, ''Vattenfallet'' from 1921, and ''Ynglingen och flickan'' from 1919. Two of his best-known paintings, ''Visit hos excentrisk dam'' and ''Crime Passionnel'', have her as a quintessential point figure. In the oil painting ''Exekution'', from 1919, Nita's father appears as a hardened executioner who kicks a young man over a steep hill.
Wallenberg was forced to burn all of Dardel's letters. She was given a place in the family banking business and told to forget her romance. Wallenberg afterward was married twice, to the Dane Carl Johan Kierullf and, later, from 1930 to 1944, to businessman Carl Axel Söderlund. She had three children.
See also
*Wallenberg family
The Wallenberg family is a prominent Swedish family of bankers, industrialists, politicians, bureaucrats and diplomats, present in most large Swedish industrial groups, including EQT AB, Ericsson, Electrolux, ABB, SAS Group, SKF, Atlas Copco, ...
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