{{Short description|Swedish painter (1865–1931)}} {{Infobox person | name = Erika Jonn | image = Erika Jonn - from Svenskt Porträttgalleri XX.png | birth_date = 9 August 1865 | birth_place = Stora Råby, near Lund | death_date = 1931 | death_place = Lund | occupation = Artist }}
'''Erika Jonn''' (9 August 1865 – 1931), was a Swedish artist.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Jonn, Erika (1865 - 1931) [sv] - KulturNav |url=https://kulturnav.org/aa1e6821-2eca-40e8-a0f7-7c1f18a7880b |access-date=2025-06-25 |website=kulturnav.org |archive-date=2025-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250625091859/https://kulturnav.org/aa1e6821-2eca-40e8-a0f7-7c1f18a7880b |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Early life == Erika Jonn was born on 9 August 1865 in Stora Råby, near Lund, in Scania to Hanna (née Pålsdotter) and Jöns Johnsson who were tenant farmers.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Carolina (Lina) Jonn |url=http://skbl.se/en/article/LinaJonn |access-date=2025-06-25 |website=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon |language=en |archive-date=2025-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250209003232/https://skbl.se/en/article/LinaJonn |url-status=live }}</ref> She was one of seven siblings in a close knit family, included sisters Lina Jonn and Maria Jonn, who both became photographers of some distinction.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |title=Maria Jonn |url=https://www.skbl.se/en/article/MariaJonn |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250123123958/https://www.skbl.se/en/article/MariaJonn |archive-date=2025-01-23 |access-date=2025-06-25 |work=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 1875 her father left farming and took on running a grist mill in Lund, but died suddenly in July and the family moved into Lund town. The young sisters were then placed in the guardianship of their older brother Jonas.<ref name=":1" />
== Career == Jonn studied painting in Copenhagen and Paris at the Académie Colarossi and in Germany. She specialised in landscape and genre painting. Jonn travelled extensively in Europe and exhibited in Paris, but her work was not displayed in Sweden during her lifetime.<ref name=":2">{{Citation |title="Svenskt Porträttgalleri XX" ("Swedish Portrait Gallery XX"), from 1901. With 714 mini biographies and portraits of Swedish architects, sculptors, painters and more |date=1901 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svenskt_Portr%C3%A4ttgalleri_XX.djvu?page=101 |access-date=2025-06-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ERIKA JONN: Lexikonett amanda |url=https://www.lexikonettamanda.se/show.php?aid=15709 |access-date=2025-06-25 |website=www.lexikonettamanda.se |archive-date=2025-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250412201636/https://www.lexikonettamanda.se/show.php?aid=15709 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[File:Farm_in_Skåne_(Erika_Jonn)_-_Nationalmuseum_-_23761.tif|thumb|''Farm in Skåne'' by Erika Jonn, held in Sweden's Nationalmuseum ]] Her work is now held in the collections of National Museum of Sweden.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
== Personal life == thumb|Erika Jonn in a photographic portrait from Allhem's Swedish Dictionary of Artists. In the summer of 1893, Jonn travelled to Norway with her sister Lina. They stayed in Hönefoss at a boarding house run by Gudbrand Ole Tandberg. Lina Jonn and Tandberg fell in love and later married in December 1895. Erika was supportive of their marriage. Lina moved to Norway, handing over her photography business to Maria Jonn. Erika moved into her sister Maria's house and set up a studio there.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Linas barnbarn berättar om storfamiljen Jonn – Kulturportal Lund |url=https://kulturportallund.se/linas-barnbarn-beraettar-om-storfamiljen-jon/ |access-date=2025-06-25 |language=sv-SE |archive-date=2024-10-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241005121452/https://kulturportallund.se/linas-barnbarn-beraettar-om-storfamiljen-jon/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Lina had a child, John, in November 1896 but died of heart failure a few weeks later.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Eriksson |first=Marika |title=Carolina (Lina) Jonn |url=http://skbl.se/en/article/LinaJonn |access-date=2025-06-25 |website=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon |language=en |archive-date=2025-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250209003232/https://skbl.se/en/article/LinaJonn |url-status=live }}</ref> The newborn John was sent to Lund in Sweden to live with his aunts Erika, Maria and Hannah, who raised him.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1" /> John Tandberg (1896–1968) grew up to be a physicist, industrial chemist, author and humorist.<ref>{{Cite web |title=904 (Vem är det : Svensk biografisk handbok / 1967) |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1967/0920.html |access-date=2025-06-25 |website=runeberg.org |language=sv |archive-date=2025-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250625091859/https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1967/0920.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
Erika Jonn died in Lund in 1931.<ref name=":0" />
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