Agnes Eleonora Augusta Emilia de Frumerie (20 November 1869 – 2 April 1937) was a
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artist who spent much of her career in France.
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She was born Agnes Eleonora Augusta Emilia Kjellberg in ]Skövde
Skövde () is a locality and urban centre in Skövde Municipality and Västra Götaland County, in the Västergötland (Western Gothland region) in central Southern Sweden.
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and studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts ( sv, Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna), commonly called the Royal Academy, is located in Stockholm, Sweden. An independent organization that promotes the development of painting, sculpture, architec ...
in Stockholm
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from 1886 to 1890. She lived in Paris
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from 1892 to 1923, where she studied with Rodin
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. She produced mainly smaller sculptures and ceramics. She married Gustaf de Frumerie, a captain in the Swedish army and later a doctor, in Paris.[ During the 1890s, she became part of the avant-garde group of artists in Paris, including ]August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (, ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty p ...
whose image she captured in a sculpture. She also worked in collaboration with Edmond Lachenal
Edmond Lachenal (3 June 1855 – 10 June 1948) was a French potter. He was a key figure in the French art pottery movement,Sullivan, Elizabeth, "French Art Pottery", In ''Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History'', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014onl ...
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Her work is included in the collections of the ]Nationalmuseum
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in Stockholm and the in Skara
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.
Selected work
Agnes Kjellberg de Frumerie - August Strindberg 1895.jpg, August Strindberg, sculpture 1895
Agnes Kjellberg de Frumerie - Immaculata (oskuld) 1897.jpg, ''Immaculata'', sculpture 1897
Agnes Kjellberg de Frumerie - Jag fryser 1921.JPG, ''Jag fryser'', sculpture 1921
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1869 births
1937 deaths
Swedish ceramists
Swedish women sculptors
Swedish women ceramists
19th-century Swedish sculptors
20th-century Swedish sculptors
Swedish people of Walloon descent
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