Sigrid Hjertén som ekspresjonist

Abstract

Summary According to several of her Scandinavian fellow students at the Academie Matisse in Paris c. 1910, Sigrid Hjerten (1885–1948) was the one in whom Matisse showed the most interest. Her position as his favourite pupil is the motif of Arvid Fougstedt's well‐known drawing of the Academy, showing Matisse standing in front of a nude study painted by Sigrid Hjerten, discussing it with her, while the surrounding crowd of male Scandinavian pupils are listening attentively and admiringly. The dark young man with the palette to the right of Hjerten is Isaac Grunewald, later to become her husband and the leading light of modern art, or »Expressionism«, in Sweden. Sigrid Hjerten was born in Sundsvall, the daughter of a high official, and educated at Stockholm's High School of Industrial Art. Here she soon attracted attention because of her designs for tapestries, several of which were shown at an exhibition in Stockholm 1909. In the autumn of the same year she joined Isaac Grunewald and other Scandinavians at ...