ESTER DOROTHEA ALMQVIST (1869 Bromma-1934 Lund), Park picture, estate label Lund 1935, oil on cardboard.

about 54x37 cm
frame dimensions 64x47 cm

HISTORIAN:
Ester Almqvist studied at the Technical School 1888-91 for Gustaf Cederström, at Valand 1892-93 for Carl Larsson and the Artists' Association school 1893-95 with Per Hasselberg and Bruno Liljefors as tutors, and in 1901 for Viggo Pedersen in Denmark. She was a member of the Artists' Union 1897-1900, and at the Federation's 1898 exhibition she is mentioned as one of the foremost. Almqvist was represented early on at Swedish and international exhibitions. Among other things, she participated in the World Exposition in St. Louis) in 1904.
Landscape was her great interest but also the connection between man and nature.

At the beginning of her career, her works were often dark with national romantic tone.
During the 1910s, her art took a new direction, the expressionist.
Her paintings suddenly contain strong colors and rapid brushstrokes. This style she developed until her death in 1934.

Ester Almqvist settled in Lund in the late 1910s. There, her friendship with another Lund neighbor, Tora Vega Holmström, was strengthened.

In 1933, several female artist friends including Siri Derkert, Mollie Faustman and Vera Nilsson organized an exhibition of Almqvist's watercolors at the legendary Galleri Färg och Form. The year after her death in 1935, with the initiative of Tora Vega Holmström, a memorial exhibition was organized at the Skånska Konstmuseet in Lund. In the same year, a memorial exhibition was also shown in Malmö and more exhibitions in Stockholm and Brussels followed. Several major exhibitions of Ester Almqvist's art have been staged in recent years and she now has a self-written place in Swedish art history. The auction's painting is done during the 1920s.