Ida Elisabeth Matton (1863–1940), was a Swedish sculptor.

Biography

Matton was born on 24 February 1863 in

Gävle Gävle () is a city in Sweden, the seat of Gävle Municipality and the capital of Gävleborg County. It had 77,586 inhabitants in 2020, which makes it the 13th most populated city in Sweden. It is the oldest city in the historical Norrland (Swede ...

. She studied at

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She subsequently traveled to Paris to continue her studies. There she attended the

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and the

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. In 1888 she exhibited at the

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. She continued exhibiting her work in Europe; in 1896 at the

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in Paris, in 1897 at the

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in Stockholm, in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle, and in 1901 at the Art Exhibition in Gefle. She also exhibited her work at the

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at the 1893

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in Chicago, Illinois. Ida Matton was also a

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, she exhibited her works from

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in 1927. Another famous work by Matton is the sculpture ''Loki's Punishment'', which dates from 1905 and was executed in marble and exhibited at the

in 1909. It was cast in bronze in 1936. In 1923, the marble sculpture was placed in the remains of the Old Riddarholm Bridge, the so-called "Palmstedt's Cave", within the

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Park. Another ''Loki's Punishment'' was donated by her brother Emil Matton in 1938, on her 75th birthday, to the future Gävleborg Museum. In 1963, the museum organized a memorial exhibition of Matton with around 60 of her works. She received several awards in

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and

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and was awarded the 1927

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for sculpture. Matton is represented at, among others, the

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and the County Museum of Gävleborg in Gävle.Länsmuseet Gävleborg
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Matton returned to Sweden. She moved back to Paris after the war, and then returned home to Gävle in 1932. Matton died on 7 July 1940 in Gävle. Her ''Sculpted Portrait of a Woman'' is in the collection of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

Gallery

File:XLM.15703.jpg, ''Bebé'', County Museum Gävleborg File:Lokes straff ida matton 1923 stockholms stadshus.JPG, ''Loki's Punishment'', 1923,

File:XLM.09457.jpg, ''Dolce far niente'', 1901, County Museum Gävleborg File:NMSk 2353, Ida Matton, Okänt kvinnoporträtt, 1891, Utf. 1891, Terrakotta.jpg, ''Sculpted Portrait of a Woman'', 1891,

File:XLM.11400 Bretagnska Bronsskulptur.jpg, ''Brittany'', 1896, County Museum Gävleborg File:XLM.11398.jpg, ''Mother'', County Museum Gävleborg File:XLM.U11039 Skulptur av Ida Matton. Ottil. M.jpg, ''Bust of Ottil Matton'', County Museum Gävleborg

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