Agnes Eleonora Augusta Emilia de Frumerie ( Swedes. Agnes Eleonora Augusta Emilia de Frumerie ; November 20, 1869 , Shevda - April 2, 1937 , Stockholm ) - Swedish painter, sculptor. She spent most of her creative life in France.
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Biography
Agnes de Frumeri was born on November 20, 1869 in the Swedish city of Shevda . From 1886 to 1890 she studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Liberal Arts in Stockholm . Received a scholarship for a three-year study abroad. After staying in Berlin, where she studied under Professor Otto Lessinget, she left for Italy.
From 1892 to 1923 she lived in Paris , where she studied with the sculptor Auguste Rodin . In Paris in 1893, Agnes de Frumerie married Gustaf de Frumerie, who was twenty years older than her [5] . Her husband did a lot to develop her artistic talents. In the 1890s, she was part of the community of avant-garde artists in Paris, and the founder of modern Swedish literature and theater, August Strindberg , whose images she captured in sculpture, also belonged to the community. For some time she worked in collaboration with Edmond Lachenal [6] [7] . With the outbreak of World War I, the family left for Sweden, where they lived in Danderyd, building a house there. In 1930, Agnes de Frumeri went to the city of Hindos, where her husband died in 1936.
Agnes de Frumeri died on April 2, 1937 in Stockholm at the age of 67.
Agnes de Frumeri is the author of small ceramic sculptures, works of silver and tin (vases Älfdans, Libra, Eve, etc.). Among her works: “Tureen” (1895), “Madonna” (1900), “Dance of the Naked” (1911), “Melancholy” (1911), “Sitting Girl” (1911), etc.
Her works are currently in the collection of the National Museum of Sweden in Stockholm, at the Västergötlands Museum in Skara , the Buenos Aires Museum of Decorative Arts, Argentina; Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris [8] .
Works
August Strindberg, sculpture. 1895
Immaculata, sculpture. 1897
The sculpture "Freeze", 1921
Agnes de Frumeri. Sculpture "Poetry and music", 1902
Exhibitions
Agnes de Frumery took part in exhibitions:
- 1895 - Gallery of Georges Petit;
- 1895 - Salon of French artists (Paris);
- 1904 - Salon des Beaux-Arts (Paris);
- 1905 - Salon of Fine Arts;
- 1907 - Salon of Decorative Arts;
- 1908 - Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts;
- 2006 - Museum of Decorative Arts of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Notes
- ↑ Agnes de Frumerie - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ 1 2 KulturNav - 2015.
- ↑ http://emp-web-84.zetcom.ch/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=exhibition&objectId=3624&viewType=detailView
- ↑ artist list of the National Museum of Sweden - 2016.
- ↑ Nordisk familjebok. Uggleupplagan. 9. Fruktodling - Gossensass . - 1908. - P. 9.
- ↑ Eidelberg, Martin P. Edmond Lachenal & His Legacy . - 2007. - P. 28-29. - ISBN 0978837134 .
- ↑ Agnes de Frumerie - konstnär och glaspionjär (Swedish) . Västergötlands museum.
- ↑ Agnes de Frumerie . Nationalmuseum.