Marya Kasparsson ( Swede. Marja (Marja) Casparsson ; 1901 - 1993 ) - Swedish artist.
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 Marya and Ana Kasparsson at Villa Snäckan | |
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| Citizenship |  Sweden |
Biography
Born on July 11, 1901, she grew up in the Snäckan villa in the town of Saltsjöbaden in Nakka. Her father Edward Casparsson ( Edvard Casparsson , 1856-1923) was a good friend of the famous artists Anders Zorn and Ernst Yousefson ; her mother Anna Kasparsson was a pianist and artist. In the family, except Mary, there were three more children.
After graduating from school in 1919, Marya was considering becoming an architect , inspired by her older sister Inga, who was one of the first female engineers in Sweden. Marya began to study at the Royal Institute of Technology , but realizing that she wants to become an artist, a year later she left the institute. She continued her education at the art school of (1920-1921), the art school of (1921-1922) and at the Royal Academy of Liberal Arts , after which she was awarded a medal.
In her mother’s villa in Saltsjöbaden, Marya set up a studio, in the summer resort of Marstrandslyckan on the small lake Vån in the southern part of Ostergotland, she arranged a second studio next to her artist friends and Verde.
Together with her family, she traveled to Italy, France, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. She worked in oil and watercolor, painted landscapes, interiors and portraits. She created watercolor illustrations for books by Norwegian storytellers Peter Asbjørnsen and Jorgen Mu , which, however, were never published.
Marya Kasparsson held a solo exhibition in Stockholm at the Konstnärshuset , owned by the Swedish Association of Artists, in 1936 and at the Norrköping Art Museum in 1938; also participated in collective exhibitions. The artist's works are presented at the National Museum of Sweden , the Museum of Modern Art , the Royal Academy of Free Arts , the Museum of the District of Östergötland and the Vår Gård art collection in Saltsjöbaden . The collection of the Swedish National Portrait Gallery at Gripsholm Castle includes, among others, a portrait of a mother who was included in the number of portraits exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1988 (“Masterpieces from Gripsholm Castle”).
She died on August 24, 1993 in Stockholm.
In 2007, a memorial exhibition was organized in Saltsjöateljén (workshop of the artist in the Villa Grünewaldvillan ), and in the summer of 2013 an exhibition of the works of Mary and her mother Anna was organized in Nacka konsthall . [four]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Swedish death index
- ↑ 1 2 Nacka kyrkoarkiv, Födelse-och dopböcker, SE / SSA / 1542 / CI / 9 (1895-1901), bildid: 00023252_00099 - P. 96.
- ↑ Swedish Census 1910 - State Archive of Sweden .
- ↑ Sommarutställning i Nacka konsthall: Möten - Anna och Marja Casparsson i en gemensam utställning