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Sigrid Hjertén

Sigrid Hjertén (1885-1948) was a Swedish modernist painter. She was born in Sundsvall, before following her family to Stockholm in 1897. She became interested in art encouraged by her uncle, the architect Ragnar Östberg. She studied at the Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, then with Matisse at his Academy in Paris from 1909. In 1911, she married her fellow student, the later well known Swedish painter Isaac Grünewald. Hjertén was part of a group of Swedish expressionists, named De Atta after the exhibition of the same name in which they participated in 1912, with Isaac Grünewald and other Swedish artists. She participated with this group in several notable exhibitions, in Berlin in 1915 and in Stockholm 1918, while living in Paris. In 1932, the Grünewald family (Isaac, Sigrid and their son Iván) returned to Sweden; the same year, Sigrid Hjertén was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She resumed painting in 1933, before entering the Beckomberga mental hospital in 1936; she divorced Isaac Grünewald in 1937, and stopped painting the same year. She died in 1948, following a lobotomy.

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