Anna Cassel

Anna Maria Augusta Cassel was a Swedish artist known for her landscape paintings of Norrland, Skåne, Västmanland, and the Stockholm area, rendered in oil or tempera.

Anna Cassel was the daughter of company manager Per August Cassel and Josefina Ramberg, and she came from a wealthy family. She lived with her mother and three of her four sisters, Lotten, Emma, and Elin, at Engelbrektsgatan 31 in Stockholm.

Her brother-in-law, Karl Öhman, described her in an unpublished book, emphasizing her moral artistic influence: "Anna Cassel gave me another direction. Not through any moral or philosophical discussion, but through her moral artistic personality. Her strong personality had a strong impact on me, and art was the moderating context."

Cassel was a lifelong friend of artist Hilma af Klint. They first met in 1878 when Cassel began her studies at Slöjdskolan, shortly before it was renamed Tekniska skolan (now Konstfack). Both continued their education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and shared a deep interest in the spiritual movement. Cassel was a member of the Edelweiss Society alongside af Klint and joined the Theosophical Lodge of Stockholm in 1904, where her sister Lotten had been a member since 1895.