Hanna Mathilda Winge, née Tengelin (4 December 1838 – 9 March 1896) was a

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painter and textile artist. She was one of the five founders of the Swedish women's association Nya Idun.

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Hanna Mathilda Winge was born in

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, Sweden. She was the daughter of blacksmith Johan Thimotheus Tengelin and Anna Maria Hultman, and married the artist

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(1825–1896) in 1867. Winge was a student at J. J. Ringdahls målarskola (J. J. Ringdahl Art School) in

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in 1859, and at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1864–1867, and the student of

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(1817–1880). Together with Sophie Adlersparre (1823–1895) and Molly Rohtlieb (1836–1914), Winge was the co-founder of the association

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(''Handarbetets vänner'') which was founded in 1874 with the purpose of the development and refinement of Swedish textile art. She was the leading force of the association and was inspired by older textile art. She became known for her design in the Old Norse (''Fornnordiska'') style, such as embroidery inspired by Viking Era patterns with dragon loops for embroidery. Her style inspired the revival of the Old Norse style within art which was also demonstrated in her design of the villa in

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of physician

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(1833–1913) in 1878, for which she and her spouse were engaged as decorators. Another area in which her style was displayed was in church textiles, where it spread after her design of an altar cloth at Uppsala Cathedral in 1882. She participated in several exhibitions between 1860 and 1885 and was represented as a textile artist at the Art and Industry Exhibition at Copenhagen in 1872 and the Art Exhibition at Vienna in 1873. She designed a reform dress for the Swedish Dress Reform Association. Winge was one of the founders of the women's association Nya Idun, along with Calla Curman, Ellen Fries, Ellen Key, and Amelie Wikström. She died in 1896 in Gothenburg.

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* Handarbetets vänner i Nordisk familjebok (andra upplagans supplement, 1924) * Svenskt konstnärslexikon, band V, sid. 700, Allhems förlag, Malmö 1967 * Nationalencyklopedin, multimedia 2000 plus {{DEFAULTSORT:Winge, Hanna Mathilda 1838 births 1896 deaths People from Gothenburg 19th-century Swedish painters Swedish textile artists 19th-century women textile artists 19th-century textile artists Members of Nya Idun Swedish embroiderers

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