Rosalie Sofie Sjöman (née Hammarqvist, 1833–1919) was an early Swedish female photographer. From the mid-1860s, she became one of
Stockholm
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's most highly regarded portrait photographers.
Biography
Born on 16 October 1833 in
Kalmar
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in the south of Sweden, Sjöman was the daughter of John Peter Hammarqvist, a captain in the merchant navy. When she turned 22, she married Captain Sven Sjöman, who was 15 years senior to her.
After moving to Stockholm in 1857, the couple had two sons and a daughter. When her husband died of alcoholism in 1864, she worked as the assistant to the photographer Carl Johan Malmberg who had established one of the city's earliest photographic studios in 1859. She later took over his studio and operated it in her own name.
Halmstad
Halmstad () is a port, university, industrial and recreational urban areas of Sweden, city at the mouth of the Nissan (river), Nissan river, in the provinces of Sweden, province of Halland on the Sweden, Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat ...
and Vaxholm
Vaxholm is a city, urban area and the seat of Vaxholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It occupies the islands of Vaxön and Kullö in the Stockholm archipelago. The name Vaxholm comes from Vaxholm Fortress, which was constructed in 154 ...
. She was also conversant with the latest techniques, coating her images with a thin film of collodion
Collodion is a flammable, syrupy solution of nitrocellulose in Diethyl ether, ether and Alcohol (chemistry), alcohol. There are two basic types: flexible and non-flexible. The flexible type is often used as a surgical dressing or to hold dressings ...
to gain a glossy effect. She also produced coloured portraits with tinting, several of which can be seen in Stockholm's Nordic Museum
The Nordic Museum () 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 to begin in 1520) to the ...
. Artur Hazelius bought 26 of her works for his collection in 1877, four years after he founded the museum. Examples of her portraits can also be seen in the Royal Library.[
In 1875, she married the photographer Gustaf Fredrik Diehl who had been active in ]Vyborg
Vyborg (; , ; , ; , ) is a town and the administrative center of Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of Vyborg Bay, northwest of St. Petersburg, east of the Finnish capital H ...
, Finland. After giving birth to a third son and a second daughter, in 1881 she moved with her five children to a new property of Regeringsgatan where she opened a new studio, soon separating from Diehl. In the early 1880s, she took her most celebrated portrait, a photograph of her daughter Alma surrounded by roses. She continued to run her studio on Regeringsgatan until 1905.[
Sjöman died in Stockholm in 1919, aged 86. She is remembered as one of Sweden's earliest female professional photographers along with Emma Schenson in ]Uppsala
Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Loc ...
, Hilda Sjölin
Hilda Sjölin (1835–1915) was a Swedish photographer, one of the first known professional woman pioneer photographers in her country.
Life
Hilda Aurora Amanda Sjölin (1835-1915) was raised in Malmö as one of four daughters, where she was th ...
in Malmö
Malmö is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, sixth-largest city in Nordic countries, the Nordic region. Located on ...
and Wilhelmina Lagerholm in Örebro
Örebro ( ; ) is the seventh-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers inland along the small river Svartån, and ...
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See also
* List of Swedish women photographers
References
Further reading
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1833 births
1919 deaths
19th-century Swedish photographers
People from Kalmar
19th-century Swedish women photographers