Hirsch Pauli, Hannah

Hannah Hirsch-Pauli was born January 13, 1864 in Stockholm in the family of the music publisher Abraham Hirsch, her uncle Adolf Hirsch was a landscape painter. The girl began to study painting from the age of twelve.

Since childhood, Hannah was friends with Eva Bonnier (Eva Bonnier, 1857-1909), they decided to become artists together. Together, they first studied at the Art School for Women at August Malmström (August Malmström, 1829-1901), where Hannah entered in 1880. A year later, Hannah was admitted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where she also studied with Bonnar. Their classmate was also Karin Bergö, the then wife of Karl Larsson.

In 1885, Hannah received the Gold Medal and a scholarship for continuing her studies abroad for the painting “Under the Lamp” at the Royal Academy. In the autumn of the same year, Hannah, in company with her friend Eva, went to Paris, where she entered the Colarossi Academy. There she studied from 1885 to 1887 in the studio of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret and Raphael Collin. In 1886, in Barbizon, she met her future husband, artist Georg Pauli.

In 1887, young people got married, and Italy spent their honeymoon. In 1889, at the World Exhibition in Paris, Hannah Hirsch-Pauli received a medal for her work, Friends.

In 1905, Hannah and Georg Pauli built a villa in the municipality of Naka , where everyone had their own studio, and they lived in the villa. In the family they had three children: Torsten, born in 1889, Georg (1891) and Ruth (1896). In 1940, her son Georg and his wife Lisa died in a car accident.

During her creative life, the artist Hannah Hirsch-Pauli has created a number of portraits of artists and writers who are part of her friends and friends of her husband. Among them are the painter Karl Nordstrom (1890; is in the collection of portraits of Bonnier, Stockholm), the writer Werner von Heidenstam , the writer Selma Lagerlef (1932, the National Museum), the group portrait “Friends” (1907, the National Museum), which also depicts the writer Ellen Kay .

In 1935, the couple George and Hannah Pauli presented a collection of paintings to the Jonkoping Art Museum. Hannah Hirsch-Pauli died on December 29, 1940 in the Swedish commune of Solna.

Today, the artist’s works are in the Jonköping Art Museum, the National Museum of Sweden, the Gothenburg Art Museum, and the private collection of artworks of the Bonnier family.

One of the streets in the southwest of Stockholm is named after the artist - Hannah Pauli Street. In this area of ​​the city, many other streets are also named after famous women of the first half of the twentieth century.

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  Portrait of the artist Vennie Soldan, 1887.

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  Hannah Hirsch. Gerda, 1891

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  Hannah Hirsch. Friends, 1885

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  Portrait of George Pauli, circa 1910

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  Werner von Haydenstam, 1896

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  Breakfast time . 1887 National Museum of Sweden , Stockholm

• Gynning, Margareta: "Pauli, Hanna", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , 28, pp. 746–749
• Gynning, Margareta: Det ambivalenta perspektivet: Eva Bonnier och Hanna Hirsch-Pauli i 1880-talets konstliv , Stockholm: Bonnier, (Diss. Uppsala University), 1999.
• Hansen, Vibeke Waallann, Women Artists in Paris 1850-1900, p. 76-77.
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• Gothenburg Museum, catalog.