Wilhelmina Krafft

Wilhelmina Krafft, as married "Noreaus", (Stockholm, 1778- Norrköping, 1828), was a Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist, child of the painter Per Krafft the Elder and sister of the artist Per Krafft the Younger.

Biography

Wilhelmina Krafft and her brother acted as models for their father's children-portraits, a genre for which he was famous; one of these paintings portraits Per drawing and Wilhelmina at his feet in admiration (1783) and one other Wilhelmina alone praying (1782). She studied as a child with her brother under the tutoring of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in the 1790s, where her main teacher was L. Sparrgren.

She and her brother debuted together in the 1797 year exhibition by the academy. Her work and talent impressed and she was decorated with the academy's second medal for her work at her first exhibition for her "beautiful prof. works in mignature";" some sources claims that she was the first female educated at the academy, and the first female to have been decorated at the academy's exhibitions, though this is not completely confirmed. The next year, in the exhibition of 1798, she participated with her original miniature portraits.

Her style of painting was cold and icy and as such a typical representant for the neoclassical, empire-art of the time. Her daughter Pamela Clementina Noraéus also became a painter.

See also

* Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl

References

* Österberg, Carin et al., "Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare". Lund: Signum 1990. (ISBN 91-87896-03-6) swe icon
* http://carlotta.gotlib.goteborg.se/pls/carlotta/VisaPerson?pin_perMasidn=160315 swe icon
* "Svenskt Konstnärslexikon", Allhems Förlag, Malmö.