Gerda Wallander

{{Short description|Swedish painter (1860–1926)}} thumb|Gerda Charlotta Wallander thumb|300px|''Berry Picking Children a Summer Day'' by Gerda Wallander '''Gerda Charlotta Wallander''' (17 August 1860 – 14 January 1926) was a Swedish portrait and genre painter.{{sfn|Larsson|1992|p=180}}<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.lexikonettamanda.se/show.php?aid=16094 |title= Gerda Charlotta Wallander |publisher= Lexikonett amanda |access-date=April 1, 2019}}</ref>

==Biography== Wallander was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She was the daughter of Carl Emanuel Wallander and Fanny Albertina Hübner. She was the niece of artist and art professor Josef Wilhelm Wallander.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://runeberg.org/nfck/0248.html|title= Josef Vilhelm Wallander, målare|publisher= Nordisk familjebok |access-date=April 1, 2019}}</ref>

She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts during the period of 1879 to 1884, and then in Paris. She had several exhibitions of her landscape paintings. Her work, which included city motifs and landscapes, is held in the collections of Norrköping, Linköping, Jönköping and Kristianstad museums.<ref name="lexikonettamanda.se">{{cite web|title=Gerda Charlotta Wallander|url=https://www.lexikonettamanda.se/show.php?aid=16094|publisher=Konstnärslexikonett Amanda|access-date=30 March 2017|language=Swedish}}</ref>

In 1886, she married her cousin, the artist and designer Alf Wallander. Their son, Sven Wallander, was an architect.

After 1905, she lived at Villa Gärdsgården at Stocksund in Danderyd municipality. She died in Stockholm in 1926. The family is buried in the Solna Church cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.ub.gu.se/fasta/laban/erez/kvinnohistoriska/tidskrifter/idun/1905/pdf/1905_51.pdf|title= Alf Wallander|publisher= Idun 51 (990) 21 December 1905|access-date= April 1, 2019|archive-date= 4 March 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304203514/http://www.ub.gu.se/fasta/laban/erez/kvinnohistoriska/tidskrifter/idun/1905/pdf/1905_51.pdf|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://kulturnav.org/ea38e901-60cf-427f-b52b-992136ea4708|title= Wallander, Sven (1890 - 1968)|publisher= KulturNav |access-date=April 1, 2019}}</ref>

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===Bibliography=== *{{cite book|last=Larsson|first=Carl|title=Carl Larsson: the autobiography of Sweden's most beloved artist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wMWfAAAAMAAJ|date=October 1992|publisher=Penfield Press|isbn=978-0-941016-91-9}}

==External links== *{{commonscat-inline|Gerda Wallander}} * [https://runeberg.org/nfck/0250.html Gerda Wallander] at Projekt Runeberg, from Nordisk familjebok, Uggleupplagan. 31. Ural - Vertex, pages 463-464 (1921). (in Swedish)

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