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Märta Måås-Fjetterström
Märta Livia Vilhelmina Måås-Fjetterström (21 June 1873 – 13 April 1941) was a leading Swedish textile artist in the early 20th-century. She is remembered in particular for the weaving studio she opened in Båstad in 1919 and for the decorative rugs she produced from the 1910s to the 1930s, increasingly combining rural Nordic traditions with modernist trends. Her works are exhibited in some of the world's most important art museums, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Biography Born on 21 June 1873 in Kimstad, Östergötland, Märta Livia Vilhelmina Fjetterström was the daughter of the clergyman Rudolf Fjetterström (1838–1920) and his wife Hedvig Olivia Augusta née Billstén (1849–1932). She was the second of eight children. From 1890 to 1895, she attended the arts and crafts school Högre Konstindustriella Skolan in Stockholm. On completing her training, she spent a few years teaching at the Technical School in J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märta Måås-Fjetterström
Märta Livia Vilhelmina Måås-Fjetterström (21 June 1873 – 13 April 1941) was a leading Swedish textile artist in the early 20th-century. She is remembered in particular for the weaving studio she opened in Båstad in 1919 and for the decorative rugs she produced from the 1910s to the 1930s, increasingly combining rural Nordic traditions with modernist trends. Her works are exhibited in some of the world's most important art museums, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Biography Born on 21 June 1873 in Kimstad, Östergötland, Märta Livia Vilhelmina Fjetterström was the daughter of the clergyman Rudolf Fjetterström (1838–1920) and his wife Hedvig Olivia Augusta née Billstén (1849–1932). She was the second of eight children. From 1890 to 1895, she attended the arts and crafts school Högre Konstindustriella Skolan in Stockholm. On completing her training, she spent a few years teaching at the Technical School in J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilli Zickerman
Emma Carolina Helena ("Lilli") Zickerman (1858–1949) was a Swedish textile artist who pioneered the Swedish Handicraft Association The Swedish Handicraft Association () is a non-profit organization with regional offices and sales outlets throughout Sweden. Founded in 1899 by the textile artist Lilli Zickerman to market high-quality handicrafts at a store in central Stockhol ... (Föreningen för svensk hemslöjd) in 1899. In 1914, she embarked on the creation of an inventory of popular textile art in Sweden, documenting some 24,000 items with photographs and samples of threads by 1932. Biography Born on 29 May 1858 in Skövde, Västergötland, Emma Carolina Helena Zickerman was the daughter of the pharmacist Carl Peter Zickerman and his wife Hedvig Amalia née Malmgren. She was raised in Skövde together with her three brothers. After studying sewing and weaving at the school run by the Friends of Handicraft in Stockholm, she returned to Skövde in 1886 where she taught texti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Norrköping Municipality
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Deaths
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Action T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua. * January 4 – The short subject ''Elmer's Pet Rabbit'' is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card. * January 5 – WWII: Battle of Bardia in Libya: Australian and British troops de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1873 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar. ** The California Penal Code goes into effect. * January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat the United States Army. * February 11 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I, and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. * February 12 ** Emilio Castelar, the former foreign minister, becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic. ** The Coinage Act of 1873 in the United States is signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant; coming into effect on April 1, it ends bimetallism in the U.S., and places the country on the gold standard. * February 20 ** The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco. ** British naval officer John Moresby discovers the site of Port Moresby, and claims the land for Britain. * March 3 – Censorship: The United States Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Litteris Et Artibus
Litteris et Artibus is a Swedish royal medal established in 1853 by Charles XV of Sweden, who was then crown prince. It is awarded to people who have made important contributions to culture, especially music, dramatic art and literature. The obverse side of the medal has the image of the current King while the reverse has the text ''"Litteris et artibus"'' (Latin: Letters and Arts). Recipients * 1857 – Karolina Bock * 1865 – Elise Hwasser * 1869 – Louise Michaëli * 1871 – Henriette Nissen-Saloman * 1874 – Béla Kéler * 1885 – Bertha Tammelin * 1886 – Ellen Hartman * 1890 – Dina Edling * 1891 – Thecla Åhlander, Agi Lindegren, Carolina Östberg * 1895 – Mathilda Grabow * 1896 – Agnes Branting * 1899 – John Forsell * 1900 – Adelina Patti * 1906 – Martina Bergman-Österberg * 1907 – Armas Järnefelt * 1914 – Alice Tegnér * 1914 – Anna Bergström-Simonsson * 1915 – Anna Oscà r * 1916 – Hugo Alfvén, Harriet Bosse, Carl Boberg * 1920 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsingborg
Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the central urban area of northwestern Scania and Sweden's closest point to Denmark: the Danish city Helsingør is clearly visible about to the west on the other side of the Øresund. The HH Ferry route across the sound has more than 70 car ferry departures from each harbour every day. Historic Helsingborg, with its many old buildings, is a scenic coastal city. The buildings are a blend of old-style stone-built churches and a 600-year-old medieval fortress (Kärnan) in the city centre, and more modern commercial buildings. The streets vary from wide avenues to small alley-ways. ''Kullagatan'', the main pedestrian shopping street in the city, was the first pedestrian shopping street in Sweden. History Helsingborg is one of the oldest cities of wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Övralid
Övralid is a manor house located north of Motala in Östergötland County, Sweden. History Övralid was erected between 1923 and 1925 by poet, writer, and Nobel Prize laureate Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. Övralid was built on the east hillside of lake Vättern Vättern ( , ) is the second largest lake by surface area in Sweden, after Vänern, and the sixth largest lake in Europe. It is a long, finger-shaped body of fresh water in south central Sweden, to the southeast of Vänern, pointing at the tip of .... The main building is a white-plastered wooden building on two floors. Övralid houses a library, a study, a dining hall, two bed rooms, and three guest rooms. The interior has been kept the way it was when Heidenstam died in 1940. The building is shown with guided tours in the summer and the personal belongings of Heidenstam can be seen where he left them at the time of his death. Heidenstam was buried in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulriksdal Palace
Ulriksdal Palace ( sv, Ulriksdals slott) is a royal palace situated on the banks of the Edsviken in the Royal National City Park in Solna Municipality, 6 km north of Stockholm. It was originally called ''Jakobsdal'' for its owner Jacob De la Gardie, who had it built by architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ... Hans Jacob Kristler in 1643–1645 as a country retreat. He later passed on to his son, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, from whom it was purchased in 1669 by Queen Hedvig Eleonora of Sweden. The present design is mainly the work of architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and dates from the late 17th century. History Hedvig Eleonora had grand plans for the palace and renamed it in 1684 Ulriksdal in honor of its intended future owner, her grandson Prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Institute In Rome
The Swedish Institute in Rome ( sv, Svenska institutet i Rom, it, Istituto Svedese di studi classici a Roma) is a research institution that serves as the base for archaeological excavations and other scientific research in Italy. It also pursues academic instruction in archaeology and art sciences as well as arranging conferences with themes of interest to the institute. The Institute has at its disposal a building in central Rome with a relatively well-supplied library, archaeological laboratory and around twenty rooms and smaller apartments for the use of visiting researchers and holders of scholarships. The institute was founded in 1925 by, among others, King Gustaf VI Adolf, then Crown Prince of Sweden. Excavations The Institute has conducted several major excavations. Before World War II, excavations were carried out on the Forum Romanum among other places, but since then most of them have taken place in southern Etruria. * Acquarossa, 1966–1978 * San Giovenale, 1956–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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