Eva Edling studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1900 to 1905 and also made study trips to Germany and Italy.
She was active in the association Svenska Konstnärinnor and participated in exhibitions with the association in Stockholm, Lund, Uppsala and Gothenburg.
Edling lived at Gropgränd 2, together with his mother and later alone.
Not far from Gropgränd, her brother Nils lived in the "Edlingska gården" bought by him at S:t Olofsgatan 2. A number of artists and writers have had their student residences there.
After studying at the Higher School of Industrial Arts and the Scuola di tessitura in Milan, Greta Gahn was the director and artistic director of Handarbetets Vänner between 1931 and 1951.
During the war years and the time after, it was mainly Gahn in collaboration with Alf Munthe who was responsible for the monumental textile art in churches and public buildings.
She was also a co-owner with Munthe of Lekattgården, a workshop for weaving and embroidery. Greta Gahn's artistic judgment and technical expertise were crucial to Munthe's textile works.
Image description: Greta Gahn, unknown year. Photo: Margit Karlson / Leksand local history archive. Leksands-kulturhusThe image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Maj Bring grew up in Uppsala on Sysslomansgatan 8 and later on Skolgatan. She studied at Vilhelmsson's painting school in Gothenburg and at the Academy of Fine Arts and for Henri Matisse in Paris 1908-1910.
Bring herself ran an art school in Söder in Stockholm and was chairman of the Association of Swedish Women Artists between 1949 and 1951. Bring painted landscapes in a modernist style and later worked with collage and sequined paintings.
Her autobiography Motsols (1986) has been reissued with a large number of images from her oeuvre. The book describes Maj Brings' artistic life and her encounters with her contemporaries and her time in Paris. The new edition has been published by Maj Brings Fonds
Works of art by Maj Bring are represented at Moderna Museet, Nationalmuseum, Sahlströmsgården in Torsby, Aguelimuseet in Sala, Per Ekström museum in Mörbylånga and Borås museum.
In 2008, several artists were honored by having streets and parks in Stockholm named after them. In Sköndal, Maj Bring is represented.
Image description: Maj Bring, 1904. Photo: Taken from the book Maj Bring - Motsols. Memoirs and Art. 2007The image is cropped]. Click here for an uncropped image
Fadime Sahindal, who was of Turkish-Kurdish origin, came to Sweden with her family in the early 1980s. As a student, she studied social work in Sundsvall and Östersund.
In her 20s, she started a relationship, which was not accepted by relatives. After harassment and threats from male relatives, Sahindal filed a police report and contacted the media. It was in this context that she became known to the public.
She became a symbol for other immigrant women in similar situations. At a seminar on integration issues in Parliament in 2001, she criticized the cultural patterns of certain immigrant groups and also the inability of society to support women in similar situations.
During a visit to the home on January 21, 2002, Fadime Sahindal was murdered. The father was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.
Representatives of Kurdish organizations and other immigrant groups in Sweden strongly condemned the murder of Fadime Sahindal.
Since then, several organizations, networks and funds have been set up to support vulnerable migrant women and the subsequent debate focused on honour killings and lack of support for migrant women.
Among the large number of people attending the funeral service in Uppsala Cathedral on February 5, 2002 were representatives of the government and the royal family.
After studying at Edwin Oller's painting school and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ingrid Årfelt joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1941.
At the Academy of Fine Arts, she participated in the teaching of graphics and in the sculpture department from 1946-1948.
In 1956, Årfelt received a scholarship from the Italian government and spent a period in Rome at the Accademia degli stanieri.
Årfelt has worked with portraits, figure compositions and landscapes. Her works are executed in woodcut, drypoint, aquatint, linocut and pastel. In 1962, Årfelt published a pictorial version of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, a work that attracted great attention.
Since 2008, Upplandsmuseet has had a forged artwork by Ingrid Årfelt from 1963, inspired by the folk life around the old restaurant "Rullan" in Uppsala. The artwork depicts and romanticizes an era that was obliterated by demolition and new construction.
Ingrid Årfelt is represented at several museums, including the National Museum and the Stockholm City Museum.
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After graduating with a master's degree in philosophy, Karin Westman Berg worked as a school teacher in Luleå and Härnösand between 1943 and 1957.
She received her doctorate in Uppsala in 1962 with Studier i C.J.L. Almqvist kvinnouppfattning (Studies in C.J.L. Almqvist's Conception of Women ) and edited several anthologies, such as Textanalys från könsrollssynpunkt (1976) and Gråt inte - forska (1979).
Westman Berg was a leading figure in Swedish feminist literary research and was a member of the board of the Fredrika Bremer Association between 1945 and 1977.
Westman Berg initiated and led gender role seminars at the Course Activities from 1967 to 1977. At that time, women's research seminars were started, which Westman Berg led until 1979. The seminars became an inspiring meeting place for people interested in women's issues and women's research.
A research position in women's and gender role issues gave her the opportunity to start the Women's Literature Project at the Department of Literature in Uppsala in 1978. At that time, women's literature referred to fiction written by Swedish women writers.
On her retirement in 1982, Karin Westman Berg was awarded the title of Professor.
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Gunilla Bergsten was an associate professor of literature and devoted herself mainly to German literature, both in academic and popular science circles.
In 1963, she defended her thesis Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus, which attracted considerable international attention. It came to mean a great deal for Thomas Mann research because Bergsten skillfully unraveled the structure of Mann's novel construction while presenting extensive, previously unknown source material.
Gunilla Bergsten was also for many years theater reviewer in Upsala Nya Tidning.
After studying under Carl Wilhelmsson at the Valand School of Painting from 1907 to 1909, Ingegerd Beskow traveled to Paris, where she became a student of Henri Matisse and Maurice Denis.
Beskow was a skilled watercolorist and also painted in oil in a muted, black color. Between 1926 and 1950 she exhibited her art in several major Swedish cities. The motifs were often landscapes, taken from cities such as Stockholm, Uppsala, Växjö and others.
Photo from 1943 at Växjö upper secondary school's 300th anniversary. The picture shows Ingegerd Beskow and (probably) Bishop Brilioth on their way into the cathedral. Photo: Yngve Andersson / Kulturparken Småland / Smålands museum.
Oil painting on canvas by Ingegerd Beskow in 1937. The painting depicts the then Växjö Cathedral seen from Ingelstadsvägen, with Karolinerhuset in front. Photo: Kulturparken Småland / Smålands museum.
Image description: Ingegerd Beskow painting on one of the paintings at an exhibition at Småland Museum in 1944. Photo: Jan Erik Anderbjörk / Kulturparken Småland / Smålands museum. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Greta Arwidsson was born in Uppsala in 1906, the daughter of Ivar and Anna, who were both academics.
In the 1930s, after studying at Uppsala University, Arwidsson participated with Professor Sune Lindqvist in the investigations of the boat burial field at Valsgärde, which is located 7 km north of Uppsala on the Fyrisån River and is a large burial field used during the Iron Age.
She was an associate professor at Uppsala University, and later became the county antiquarian on Gotland and a member of the Swedish Academy of Letters. Arwidsson carried out several important surveys on Gotland. Arwidsson also participated in investigations of Birka and thus contributed to Birka research, including as editor and author of research publications.
In 1956, Arwidsson was appointed professor of archaeology. She was also internationally recognized for her work in archaeology. In her name, "Greta Arwidsson's Friends" was founded, an association for women active in national and union life in Uppsala.
From Greta Arwidsson's book from 1942 about the finds in Valsgärde. The picture shows a helmet found in one of the graves. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
In 1944, Greta Arwidsson and Gunnar Ekholm from Uppsala University examined six graves on Högåsen in Gamla Uppsala. Greta Arwidsson stands by the camera. Photo: Nils Sundquist [assumed] / Upplandsmuseet.
Image description: Greta Arwidsson at the Museum of Nordic Antiquities, Gustavianum, Uppsala, unknown year. Gunnar Sundgren / Upplandsmuseet. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
