Elsa Danson Wåghals (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Anna Ingeborg Elsa Danson; 13 January 1885 – 30 March 1977) was a Swedish visual artist, known for painting and sculpture.

Biography

Elsa Danson Wåghals was born as Anna Ingeborg Elsa Danson on 13 January 1885, in

Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

. She was one of three daughters of Anna (

Petrini) and accountant Carl August Wilhelm Danson. She took the name Wåghals sometime in the 1910s, it is a family name on her father's side. During the 1910s she studied at and at the Technical School (; now

Konstfack Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden. History Konstfack has had several different names since it was founded in 1844 by the eth ...

) in Stockholm. Wåghals worked for seventeen years as a telegraph commissioner at the Royal Telegraph Office, and left her role in 1920 to study art in France. In

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, and

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at the Académie Scandinave in Paris; as well as studied with

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and

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in Paris. While in Paris, she exhibited her work at the Salon of the

Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA; ; ) was the term under which two groups of French artists united, the first for some exhibitions in the early 1860s, the second since 1890 for annual exhibitions. 1862 Established in 1862 by the painter a ...

, Salon d'Automne,

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, and

Salon des Tuileries The Salon des Tuileries was an annual art exhibition for painting and sculpture, created June 14, 1923, co-founded by painters Albert Besnard and Bessie Davidson, sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, architect Auguste Perret, and others. The first year's ...

. Wåghals also studied drawing at the

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. Her paintings featured themes of landscapes, and city scenes. Wåghals made public art for

Stockholm City Hall Stockholm City Hall (, ''Stadshuset'' locally) is the seat of Stockholm Municipality in Stockholm, Sweden. It stands on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen island, next to Riddarfjärden's northern shore and facing the islands of Riddarholmen and ...

. Wåghals died on 30 March 1977, in Lidingö, Sweden, and is buried in

Lidingö Cemetery Lidingö Cemetery () is a cemetery located adjacent to Lidingö Church in Stockholm County, Sweden. It is centrally located on the island of Lidingö at an elevation adjacent to Kyrkviken's southern shore. South-west of the church is Hersbyholm ...

. Her work can be found in the collection at .

References

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