ANNA SOFIA PALM DE ROSA

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture

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Anna Sophia Palm de Rosa (1859-1924) was a Swedish water-colour artist. She was famous for her ‘postcard paintings’. Her father, Gustaf Wilhelm Palm, was a well-known landscape artist, and her mother, was the daughter of painter Johan Gustaf Sandberg.

She was influenced by Skagen Painters (The Skagen painters were a group of Scandinavian artists who were active in Skagen in Jutland, mainly during the 1870s and 1880s).

She became, by 1890s, one of the ‘Sweden's most popular painters, with her watercolours of steamers and sailing ships and scenes of Stockholm’. Her coastal scenes have shimmering light, typical of Skagen painters.

He one of the earliest art work, (last plate in this series) was a painting of a game of cards in Skagen's Brøndums Hotel gouache on paper on canvas. This was in 1885, while she spent a summer with the Skagen Painters.

From 1889 to 1891 taught water-colour at the Swedish academy. She painted (post card water-colours) of coastal scenes, boats, sail ships, steamers, scenes of the city of Stockholm, Swedish places, folk life, motifs, young military men and various soldiers. Her paintings were well detailed and colour. Her paintings consisted of terrain views, genre scenes, streets with people. But architectural details and perspectives were perfunctory. This was because her scenes were probably adopted from black-white photographs. Anna Palm de Rosa’s output was extensive, about several hundred works.

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