Harriet Augusta Dorotea Löwenhjelm (18 February 1887 – 24 May 1918) was a

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painter and poet. She mainly considered herself an artist. She died at Romanäs sanatory in

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after some years of

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Family

Löwenhjelm was born on 18 February 1887, in

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, in Scania, Sweden. She was the daughter of colonel Gustaf Adolf Löwenhjelm (1842–1929) and Margareta, née Dickson (born 1853). She had five siblings. Her older brother, Carl Löwenhjelm, was a medical doctor, and the younger one, Chrispin Löwenhjelm (1892–1983), was an officer and chamberlain. Her cousin Marianne Mörner was a docent in French at

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. She accompanied Löwenhjelm on a trip to Paris and in different ways inspired her in her poetic works. Mörner also introduced Löwenhjelm's poems and pictures into the literary Sweden of the 1920s.

Education

Löwenhjelm studied at

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, followed by

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's higher teacher seminary, Kerstin Cardon's drawing school, Konstakademien (1909–1911) and for the previous superintendent of Valands konstskola, professor

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Literary production

Some of Löwenhjelm's most well-known poems are ''Jakt på fågel'' ("Bird hunt"), ''Tag mig. Håll mig. Smek mig sakta.'' ("Take me. Hold me. Caress me gently.") and ''Beatrice-Aurore'', which has been set to music by Hjalmar Casserman. Her poems originally were a complement to her drawings. Her later poetry were filled of awareness of death and has a deepened religious dimension. Löwenhjelms poems were published posthumously in 1919.

Bibliography

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Literature

*Elsa Björkman-Goldschmidt: ''Harriet Löwenhjelm'' (1947) *Elsa Björkman-Goldschmidt (ed.): ''Brev och dikter, Harriet Löwenhjelm med teckningar av författarinnan'' (1952) *Lars Elleström: ''Från Lenngren till Lugn. En ironisk historia'' (2005) *Boel Hackman: ''Att skjuta en dront'', (2011)

References

External links

* Harriet Löwenhjelm at the Swedish Wikisource
Harriet Löwenhjelm-sällskapet
Literary Society

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