Eva Bagh (Sweden, 1871-1964)
Eva Bager (15 December 1871 – 6 November 1964) was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of a printing plant director, but died when she was very young.
From 1892 to 1895, she studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts under George von Rosen and Gustav Sedstrom.
Dissatisfied with the historical painting emphasis placed by the Academy, she spent a brief time at the École des étenciques des Artists in 1894-1895, where she went to Rome to study in 1896 and moved to Paris the following year, where she attended Académie Colarossi and spent summers in Brittany. She then returned to Stockholm to complete her studies at the Artists' Association School.
In 1903, she joined Nya Idun, the Swedish Women's Cultural Association founded in 1885. Bager continued his travels abroad, painting farms, interiors and portraits. Her works include Chinese New Year's Eve and From Brittany (1897), Night at Drottingholm (1911) and Morning in the Studio (1943).
She is remembered for her farm and interior scenes, but did not reach its peak until 1941, when she attracted attention based on her realist work at a gallery in Stockholm based on her work on realism at the end of the 19th century.
The works were soon exhibited in Munich and Berlin and aroused interest. Some of Sweden's art museums, including Stockholm's National Museum, house Bagh's work.
Bager's paintings can be said to have been strongly influenced by the times, largely determined by the basic education she received in the doctrine of realism in the 1880s. At the same time, a renewed ability is also very evident, in the painting, the ancient form is full of depth and meditation, she puts the study of life and nature above everything. In addition to the Influence of the French 1880s, the Dutch, Chardin, and French and Danish features of the early 19th century can be seen in the 17th century. However, her art also points to the concentration of simplified and unified forms of painting, especially in interior scene painting. Bag also painted portraits and landscapes.