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Eva Fredrika Bonnier (17 November 1857 – 13 January 1909) was a Swedish painter and philanthropist.
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After about 1900 Bonnier fell silent as an artist and devoted herself to her philanthropic work, enabled through her inherited wealth. She established a foundation for the beautification of Stockholm, which in its first years financed paintings and sculptures for public places and institutions, such as the Royal Library, Stockholm University, and several Stockholm schools. The foundation remains active.
Bonnier was a member of the women's association
File:Eva Bonnier Självporträtt 1886.jpg, 1886 (''Self portrait'', Bonnier family portrait collection, Stockholm)
File:Interior of a Studio in Paris (Eva Bonnier) - Nationalmuseum - 20563.tif, 1886 ('' Interior of a Studio in Paris'', Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)
File:Magdalena by Eva Bonnier.jpg, 1887 (''Magdalena'',
Eva Fredrika Bonnier (17 November 1857 – 13 January 1909) was a Swedish painter and philanthropist.
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Biography
Born in Stockholm as the daughter of publisher Albert Bonnier and a member of a leading family of publishers, Bonnier studied painting withAugust Malmström
Johan August Malmström (14 October 1829 – 18 October 1901) was a Swedish painter. As an artist, he was known for his country motifs often featuring children. His most widely recognized work is ''Grindslanten'' (1885) featuring a typical s ...
and became a student in the women's section of the Royal Swedish Academy of 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, archite ...
in Stockholm in 1878. Together with her friend and co-student Hanna Hirsch, she traveled to Paris in 1883, staying there until 1889. Her painting "Music" (1889) was awarded a ''mention honorable'' at the Paris Salon. After her return to Sweden in 1889, she was active as a painter until about 1900, mostly of portraits, such as those of Lisen Bonnier (her sister-in-law) as convalescent, industrialist Hjalmar Lundbohm, politician , educator and poet and scholar Oscar Levertin
Oscar Ivar Levertin (17 July 1862, Norrköping – 22 September 1906) was a Swedish poet, critic and literary historian. Levertin was a dominant voice of the Swedish cultural scene from 1897, when he started writing influential high-profil ...
. Bonnier exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts
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at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, hel ...
in Chicago, Illinois. She is represented with several paintings in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
After about 1900 Bonnier fell silent as an artist and devoted herself to her philanthropic work, enabled through her inherited wealth. She established a foundation for the beautification of Stockholm, which in its first years financed paintings and sculptures for public places and institutions, such as the Royal Library, Stockholm University, and several Stockholm schools. The foundation remains active.
Bonnier was a member of the women's association Nya Idun
Nya Idun is a Swedish cultural association for women founded in 1885, originally as a female counterpart to Sällskapet Idun ('the Idun Society'). Its aim was to "gather educated women in the Stockholm area for informal gatherings".
There was a ...
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Bonnier suffered from frequent depressions and took her own life in Copenhagen
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in 1909.
Selected works
Waldemarsudde
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde ( Swedish for ''Cape Waldemar''), is a museum located on Djurgården in central Stockholm. The name is composed of Waldemar, an Old German noble male name, and udde, meaning cape. It is derived from a historical nam ...
)
File:Reflection in Blue (Eva Bonnier) - Nationalmuseum - 18706.tif, 1887 (''Reflection in Blue'', Nationalmuseum)
File:Eva Bonnier Couturières 1887.jpg, 1887 (''Dressmakers'')
File:Eva Bonnier 4.jpg, 1890 (''The House Keeper'', Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)
File:Eva_Bonnier_3.jpg, 1890 (''Convalescent'', Lisen Bonnier)
File:JuliaHasselberg by EvaBonnier 1906.jpg, ca 1906 (Julia Hasselberg, Blekinge museum)
References
*Gynning, Margareta: ''Det ambivalenta perspektivet: Eva Bonnier och Hanna Hirsch-Pauli i 1880-talets konstliv'', Stockholm, Bonnier, (diss. Uppsala University), 1999. *Hedberg, Tor: "Bonnier, Eva Fredrika", ''Svenskt biografiskt lexikon'', 5, pp. 436–438.Further reading
* Gynning, MargaretaExternal links
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