Gerda Palm Explained

Gerda Palm
Birth Date:14 October 1871
Birth Place:Ånimskogs parish
Death Place:Gothenburg
Nationality:Swedish
Known For:painting

Gerda Palm (14 October 1871 – 25 January 1949) was a Swedish painter who studied in Stochholm. She exhibited from before the first war until the 1940s. She has painting in Swedish collections.

Life

Palm was born in 1871 in Ånimskogs parish. Her parents were Major Henrik Salomon Ferdinand Palm and Amalia Fröding.thumb|left|NudeShe studied art in Stockholm at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1895 to 1901 before travelling to Munich, Paris and Rome afterwards She painted portraits and landscapes. She studied at Axel Tallberg's school in 1912. Separately, she exhibited at the Lilla ateljén in Stockholm in 1941 and at Good Art in Gothenburg in 1945. She participated in the Lund exhibition in 1907 and the Swedish Artists ' Association's exhibition at the Skåne Art Museum in Lund in 1912 and the International Madonna exhibition in Florence in 1933.[1]

She successfully entered Dalsland Art Association exhibitions in the 1930s and 40s. She had work in the Hesselboms exhibition in 1938.

Palm died in Gothenburg in 1949. Her paintings are in,[2] the Gothenburg Art Museum, Alingsås and Uddevalla Museum, and in Dalsland.[3]

Sources

Notes and References

  1. See Swedish artist lexicon and Biog Handbook at the pages given below in "sources"
  2. Web site: Henriksholm, Teckning av Gerda Palm Ånimskog. digitaltmuseum.se. en. 2020-01-10.
  3. Web site: GERDA PALM: Lexikonett amanda. www.lexikonettamanda.se. 2020-01-10.