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At the beginning of the last century, the situation for women artists was difficult, only men were allowed to join artists' organisations, which was a requirement for exhibitions, including at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. In 1910, therefore, the Association of Swedish Female Artists (FSK) was founded in Stockholm by some 40 female artists. In 1921, the association held its acclaimed April [...]
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The Workshop Association was founded in 1918 as a non-profit association of architects, craftsmen and artists. The aim was to "promote the artistic work for the interior design of the Swedish home through active activities". The chairman was Slöjdföreningen's magazine editor Hakon Ahlberg. The workshop's first exhibition, which opened in the early autumn of 1920 in Liljevalchs konsthall, was in its entirety more bourgeois than the Home Exhibition
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In the spring of 1918, three of the most prominent modernists of the time exhibited at Liljevalchs: Isaac Grünewald, Sigrid Hjertén and Leander Engström. A total of 450 works were shown, of which Grünewald accounted for 220 works, Hjertén for 170 and Engström only 65. Visitors were divided to this new art direction, either for or against modernism. Dagens Nyheter's and Svenska
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The exhibition opened on 17 October 1917. The idea was to cater to the working class with simple furniture and household utensils at an affordable price, designed by famous Swedish artists and architects. The exhibition was preceded by a competition, so that the participating designers and companies could produce objects for the exhibition in good time. Interior architect and furniture designer David Blomberg was
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The Austrian exhibition was remarkable in many aspects. During the war, an agreement was signed in June 1917 between Liljevalch's director Sven Strindberg and Karl Bittner, trade attaché for the Austro-Hungarian legation, for an Austrian art exhibition at Liljevalchs konsthall from 15 August to 30 September 1917. The exhibiting artists included Albin Egger-Lienz, Anton Faistauer, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka,
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At the end of the 19th century, there had long been a desire in artistic circles to create an independent art gallery for permanent exhibitions of contemporary art. At the National Museum, inaugurated in 1866, only classical art was shown, and many of the modern artists of the time felt discouraged by the art establishment. As a protest against the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the Opponents were founded in 1885 by a group of Swedish artists. In a
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Liljevalch Art Gallery is named after the successful businessman Carl Fredrik Liljevalch Jr (1837–1909). We will never know what he himself would have thought of it all, because the initiative for the art gallery was taken after his death. The super modern building at Kungliga Djurgården was constructed with the help of money left over in his estate inventory. Read more here
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