INGEBORG WETTERGREN. Embroidery, landscape with flowers and trees, signed on verso, first half of the 20th century.

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INGEBORG WETTERGREN. Embroidery, landscape with flowers and trees, signed on verso, first half of the 20th century.
882600. INGEBORG WETTERGREN. Embroidery, landscape with flowers and trees, signed on verso, first half of the 20th century.

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21 x 19 cm.

Ingeborg Ellen Katarina Wettergren, born November 20, 1878 in Arboga, died June 11, 1960 in Stockholm, was a Swedish textile artist and painter.

With her silk embroideries, executed in small format with landscape and floral motifs or as church textiles, she renewed a medieval art form.#1 Wettergren was the daughter of the city doctor Carl Ludvig Fredrik Wettergren and Anna Katrina Amalia Stenberg. Both she and the two siblings had artistic talents. Sister Anna Wettergren-Behm became a textile artist and brother Erik Wettergren became director of the National Museum. Around the turn of the century, she was a student at the High School of Art and Industry in Stockholm and carried out self-study during trips to France, the Netherlands, Italy and was a resident of Switzerland for a period.

Wettergren has mainly designed and executed church textiles, especially antependiums and mass hooks. Her art is influenced by medieval textiles, but also by oriental motifs and old Swedish folk art.#2 In 1913, she contributed with a permanent exhibition of church art that became the origin of Libraria, and she was an employee from its founding in AB Libraria, the Board of Deacons' company for church art. Wettergren was also a member of Handarbetets vänner, where she drew silk embroideries, partly for church use, partly in the form of paintings with picture representations. Her early compositions are kept in a personal, lyrical-religious style. The later compositions have a freer form and a rich and powerful colour. The compositions are mainly landscapes and floral motifs. Wettergren has produced textiles for, among others, Västerås Cathedral, St. Nikolai Church in Arboga, King Karl's Church in Kungsör, Himmeta Church and Gunnilbo Church. She participated in a number of Handarbetets vänners exhibitions and in 1935 the Malmö museum showed a smaller exhibition with her embroideries and a larger exhibition was shown at the Statens historiska museum medeltidssal in 1949 where a selection of her more than 40 years of activity was shown. Separately, she exhibited paintings and embroideries at Galerie Blanche in 1958, which was followed up with a solo exhibition in Arboga the same year. She was awarded Litteris et artibus in 1949.

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882600. INGEBORG WETTERGREN. Embroidery, landscape with flowers and trees, signed on verso, first half of the 20th century.

Description

21 x 19 cm.

Ingeborg Ellen Katarina Wettergren, born November 20, 1878 in Arboga, died June 11, 1960 in Stockholm, was a Swedish textile artist and painter.

With her silk embroideries, executed in small format with landscape and floral motifs or as church textiles, she renewed a medieval art form.#1 Wettergren was the daughter of the city doctor Carl Ludvig Fredrik Wettergren and Anna Katrina Amalia Stenberg. Both she and the two siblings had artistic talents. Sister Anna Wettergren-Behm became a textile artist and brother Erik Wettergren became director of the National Museum. Around the turn of the century, she was a student at the High School of Art and Industry in Stockholm and carried out self-study during trips to France, the Netherlands, Italy and was a resident of Switzerland for a period.

Wettergren has mainly designed and executed church textiles, especially antependiums and mass hooks. Her art is influenced by medieval textiles, but also by oriental motifs and old Swedish folk art.#2 In 1913, she contributed with a permanent exhibition of church art that became the origin of Libraria, and she was an employee from its founding in AB Libraria, the Board of Deacons' company for church art. Wettergren was also a member of Handarbetets vänner, where she drew silk embroideries, partly for church use, partly in the form of paintings with picture representations. Her early compositions are kept in a personal, lyrical-religious style. The later compositions have a freer form and a rich and powerful colour. The compositions are mainly landscapes and floral motifs. Wettergren has produced textiles for, among others, Västerås Cathedral, St. Nikolai Church in Arboga, King Karl's Church in Kungsör, Himmeta Church and Gunnilbo Church. She participated in a number of Handarbetets vänners exhibitions and in 1935 the Malmö museum showed a smaller exhibition with her embroideries and a larger exhibition was shown at the Statens historiska museum medeltidssal in 1949 where a selection of her more than 40 years of activity was shown. Separately, she exhibited paintings and embroideries at Galerie Blanche in 1958, which was followed up with a solo exhibition in Arboga the same year. She was awarded Litteris et artibus in 1949.

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Not examined out of frame.

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Yes

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