She was a slow painter and tended to rework her pieces. During the midsummer weekend of 1920 Maja Braathen married Gunnar Johansson, the son of a wholesale merchant and a childhood friend from her days in Sundsvall. Maja Braathen was very musical and revealed an interest in painting and drawing from an early age. . Maja Braathen and her paintings came to have a great significance for a younger generation of artists, such as Ellinor Taube and.
Maja Braathen became very taken by the location and returned there every summer until the end of the 1940s when she built Ararat, a Norwegian-style house which she had designed herself. Maja Braathen was an artist who became famous for her dreamy and narrative paintings. Anna Marie Lous, Braathen, Gustaf P. She visited museums and made notes on the Louvre, Musée Rodin and the Musée Guimet, where she was deeply moved by the Asiatic collection of religious history materials. à ren 1916-1918 bedrev hon studier för Birger Simonsson pÄ.
Both of her parents had emigrated from Norway. You typed in an invalid email address. Bring is represented in the collection of the with eleven works, seven paintings and four drawings. At the same time she shared a studio in Oslo with her cousin Hugo Lous Mohr and Hallvard Blekastad, while studying with Henrik Sörensen. Check your keyboard's language settings and capitalization You had too many failed login attempts, please contact our. Artistically, her style was defined by contact with , with whom she studied in Paris in 1910. This was a politically difficult time and the so-called race issue was being openly discussed.
Maja Braathen then returned to Sweden, initially to Sundsvall, but then to Stockholm, where her mother, her younger brother Gustaf, and her parents-in-law were living. How do I book a transport? She was brought up on Hovid manor house on Alnön. After winning an auction, order your transport on When will my item be delivered? During the 1950s and 1960s Maja Braathen held several exhibitions. She continued to exhibit until she was nearly 90. The ties to family and friends in Norway remained strong and Hovid manor house became a significant meeting place for reunions.
Maybe you used a different one? It is probable that she displayed paintings and drawings from her journey to Estonia and her time in Paris, and possibly a few paintings with motifs from JĂ€mtland. Her work was very well received by the press. Please note, when making payment via Klarna, that the address for home delivery must be the same as your invoicing address. Maja Braathen undertook many journeys across Europe. She also travelled to Norway where she had relatives and friends. Her portrait of is in the portrait collection of.
Maja Braathen died in Stockholm in 1973. Packaging and insurance All items sent from Bukowskis are fully insured and carefully inserted in discreet packaging to protect your unique item. Hon gifte sig 1920 med sÄgverksdisponenten Gunnar Johansson som hon umgÄtts med sedan barnsben, och flyttade till. During the second half of the 1910s she studied with Birger Simonsson at Göteborgs Musei rit- och mÄlarskola today Valand Academy in Gothenburg, along with the likes of. Maja Braathen later depicted her memories of these happy times in her paintings.
At the same time she began to look around for a place to settle outside of town. She lost her husband in early 1929, following a brief illness. Her mother, Anna Lous Braathen, came from a musical and religious home. In 1934 she accompanied Ebba Hellström to EdsÄsen in JÀmtland in order to paint there. When the family moved to Stockholm in the early 1910s, following the death of her father, she took organ lessons.
Men redan 1929 avled hennes make och Maja Braathen flyttade till sin mor och bror i Stockholm. Her actual artistic breakthrough did not happen until 1949 when she held a solo exhibition at KonstnÀrhuset which included paintings and drawings from EdsÄsen, Hovid and Paris. Arkiverad frÄn den 23 mars 2017. Maja Braathen var nÀra vÀn till och och fick sitt konstnÀrliga genombrott under 1940 och 1950-talet. Att resa, att vara i stÀndig rörelse kom att bli en livshÄllning för henne. In 1924, as a result of the sawmill crisis, which particularly hit the Sundsvall region, the couple moved to Helsinki, where Gunnar Johansson became a managing director.
She was the daughter of. She is the subject of several portraits in the collection, by , , , and ; the museum also owns her portrait of. Ararat became her base, where she would paint mountains, cattle, goats and people. Maja Braathen was interested in sufism and read Inayat Khan. Maja Braathen was born in Sundsvall. Could not log in This is due to one of the following reasons: You don't have an account yet. Ebba was a drawing teacher and had been a very good friend of Vera Nilsson since they had studied together at Tekniska skolan today University College of Arts, Crafts and Design.