Märtha Gahn
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Märtha Fredrique Gahn (
Fellingsbro Fellingsbro (, locally ) is a locality and a parish situated in Lindesberg Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden with 1,384 inhabitants in 2010. It is home to the Fellingsbro folk high school. History The parish of Fellingsbro is mentioned already ...
, 30 September 1881 – 17 October 1973) was a
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textile artist. Together with Elsa Flensburg, Bror Geijer Göthe and Märtha Hjortzberg-Reuterswärd, she was one of the founders of the "Ateljé Handtryck" textile workshop in 1915. In 1935 she became head of the Libraria studio, which produced ecclesiastical textiles for the
Church of Sweden The Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.6 million members at year end 2021, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sw ...
. Gahn's work may be found in the collections of the Nationalmuseum the Röhsska Museum, and the
Nordic Museum The Nordic Museum ( sv, Nordiska museet) is a museum located on Djurgården, an island in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to the cultural history and ethnography of Sweden from the early modern period (in Swedish history, it is said t ...
. A portrait of Gahn by Greta Fahlcrantz is currently in the portrait collection of
Gripsholm Castle Gripsholm Castle ( sv, Gripsholms slott) is a castle in Mariefred, Södermanland, Sweden. It is located by lake Mälaren in south central Sweden, in the municipality of Strängnäs, about 60 km west of Stockholm. Since Gustav Vasa, Gripsho ...
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* 1881 births 1973 deaths Swedish textile artists Swedish women artists 20th-century Swedish artists 20th-century Swedish women artists 20th-century women textile artists 20th-century textile artists People from Lindesberg Municipality {{Sweden-artist-stub