Anna Boberg
Anna Boberg is a Swedish painter, known for her Norwegian landscapes. She was a person of many artistic pursuits; initially she worked with ceramics and textiles and then added painting, set design, and writing. She was of an artistic family, but never received any formal training in the arts; she is considered an autodidact. Many of her paintings are of northern Norway, which became Boberg's focus for many years after a trip there in 1901. These works were not received very well in Sweden but did much better in Paris. For over 30 years, she painted in these extreme conditions. No man (or woman) before her had painted in such environments.
In her paintings, Boberg tasks herself with demonstrating the life of fishermen in this hostile environment, along with the ever-changing atmosphere of the landscape. She had a small home built in the Lofoten Isles, from where she set out on an excursion that lasted several weeks in her sailboat. She slept in nature, found her own food, and painted in the glacial temperatures.
P.S. Do you know Emily Carr? She lived on the Pacific side of North America and also loved nature. Read about her works that show her concern for environmental change of early 20th-century Canada.
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