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Greta Gerell

(Sweden, 1898-1982)
Greta Gerell
(Sweden, 1898-1982)

Greta Gerell, oil on canvas, signed and dated Skogshyddan 1941.

Summer view from Cedergrenska Parkvillan, Stocksund. 47 x 55 cm.

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Already as a 17-year-old, Greta Gerell was accepted as one of the youngest ever to the Stockholm Academy of the Arts. In the 1920s she studied with André Lhote in Paris, then in Florence and Munich.

As a 29-year-old, she was dedicated to a solo exhibition at one of Stockholm's most prestigious galleries, Gummesson’s, in 1927. The exhibition was successful and was her breakthrough.

Greta Gerell is represented at leading museums in Sweden. The Moderna Museet's collection includes five works by her. The museum's artwork "Kvinnostudie" was donated to the Moderna Museet by King Gustav VI Adolf, who admired Greta Gerell's art.

The painting's summer view is taken from Cedergrenska Parkvillan (also called Skogshyddan), a famous cultural-historical building in Stocksund. From 1890, it was hunter master Cedergren's summer home and the villa has been classified by Danderyd municipality as "culturally and historically indispensable". The property is today a private home and a beautiful landmark in Stocksund, which can be seen on the way out to Roslagen from Stockholm.

Artist

Greta Gerell's mother encouraged her artistic talent early on, and at just 17, she was accepted as one of the youngest students ever at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. During the 1920s, Gerell studied with André Lhote in Paris, got scholarship to travel to Florance, and lived and studied in Munich. Gerell's first exhibition was held in Gummesson's art trade in Stockholm in 1927. The exhibition became a great success. Gerell's realistic artworks of landscape and animal motifs at the beginning of his career were catalysed by the impressionist movement. During the 1920s her painting changed to a new objectivity with a serene radiance and elements of purism. Interiors, portraits and still lifes became her inspirations and were executed with the utmost preciseness. Greta Gerell lived in accordance with anthroposophy since her youth, which, according to her, did not directly influence her painting but accompanied her throughout her life. In 1967, the Greta Gerell Foundation was established to support anthroposophical activities in Sweden. Art critic Karl Asplund described her painting as "a skilled realism, imbued with a quiet, warm feeling for the subject."

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