Painting

Exhibition text for “Women and art,” 8 March to 6 June 2004 at the Museum of Bohusläns. From a handwritten catalog of Uddevalla - Musei - Kulturhistorian - collections, Konsthistoriska departementå Tavelverket in the 3dje floor, established in Mars 1916 by Knut Adrian Andersson, Intendent from 1 October 1915: Elise Bergman, a landscape painter, born in 1842. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm since 1877 1/10. The Teachers of Drawing at Uddevalla’s Lower General Curriculum, took his dismissal with a pension of 1/4 1908. Have exposed landscape boards, with motifs from different places, in several of our Swedish art associations. Dog 1924. Article in Bohusläningen on Saturday 24 May 1890; The Art Exhibition at Uddevalla Museum. ... A small nourished tafla is Miss Elise Bergman’s birch grove. It is an appealing authentic Swedish landscape, with the small cottage and the paddock, such a place der it can make a city nest good in the body to get a stag out for a while. A canvas with a motif from Skåne - a farm with storks on the roof - looks almost more Dutch or Danish. The colour tone of this as well as yet another prostrate landscape image of Miss Bergman is bleak and ineffective, hvarjemte at the turbid water collections (or hvad?) repoisoning on the canvas the painter seemingly hafva divorced at work somewhat hasty. Ms. Bergman, except the catalogue, exhibits a picture from Hasselbacken in Uddevalla, freshly coloured, but a crumb awkward. Particularly, the dark red bush is doing well against the green bottom paint. Swedish artist’s lexicon Bergman, Gustafva Elisabeth 2/7 1842 in Fjelie, d. 1924 15/11 in Kristianstad. The Landscape Painter. Parents: Fanjunkaren Claes Anders Bergman and Johanna Magdalena Elisabeth Sandberg. Brother of Gustav B. - Were the Sluge School in Stockholm 1869-70 and the Academy of Fine Arts 1870-74. The drawing teacher at the Uddevalla General Textworks 1877-1909. Elise Bergman has preferably painted smiling landscape, sparkling water and flowering fruit trees. Most of her canvases were added during the summer holidays she spent on the country, mostly in Skåne and Södermanland. In Uddevalla, she seemed very much to raise the art interest and set in motion a painting school, which had many students. Motif for her paintings she has taken from the surroundings of the city, especially Gustavsberg and Byfjord. After her retirement from school, she settled in Kristianstad, where she was diligently employed with painting into the last. Elise Bergman exhibited a 1899 in Paris at the “Union des Femmes peintres and Eliurs” and at the Uddevalla museum 1874 [Landscape, motif from Skåne]. She is represented with a collection of drawings in Nationalmuseum and paintings in several rural museums, including in Uddevalla. Her sketchbooks mm are deposited in the City Archives in Malmö. In the collections also UM000897 Painting; UM74.24.001 Painting; UM74.24.002 Painting and UMFA54990: 0041, formerly UM006393: f, an studio photograph on Elise Bergman in 1911. “The landscape painter Elise Bergman, Uddevalla 1911.” She stands by a easel where a painting is placed, holds palette and brushes in her hand and has a work placed on the floor.