artist: Isabella Wrangel (Swedish 1911-1975)
medium: graphite on paper
dimensions: 34 x 35 cm frame size / 21 1/2 x 16 cm image size (approx)
signed and dated -47
presented in its original frame with new non-reflective UV glass
AU $530 (approx US $355 / 325 EUROS / 53,000 yen / 275 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist biography
Isabella Anna Wrangel von Brehmer was born January 23, 1911 in Paris. She was was a Swedish painter and print maker.
Wrangel had a strong artistic upbringing - her father was the artist Jurgen Wrangel, a member of the modernist art group De tolv (The Twelve) and her mother was noted artist Anna Wrangel (nee Faehte). Her first husband was the artist Willie Hubert Weberg, and the couple were married from 1943 to 1950. Her second husband was artist William Mönnich. They married in 1950.
Wrangel studied at the Konsthögskolan (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) in Stockhom from 1933 to 1938. She took study trips to France in 1937 and 1948, and to the Netherlands and around Scandinavia. She was awarded scholarships in 1956 from the Kungafonden (Royal Foundation) and in 1961, 1966 and 1967 the City of Stockholm's artist scholarships.
She has a number of solo exhibitions at Gummesons konsthall in Stockholm and in Landskrona. She had a two person exhibition in in 1952 alongside her husband William Mönnich) and in Landskrona in 1956. She regularly showed in the Sveriges allmänna konstförenings (Swedish General Art Association) exhibitions in Stockholm beginning the early 1940s and several times in the Skånes konstförenings (Skåne Art Association) exhibitions in Malmö and Lund from he early 1950s, the Nordiska konstförbundets (Nordic Art Association) exhibition in Gothenburg, Liljevalchs konsthall's Stockholm Salons, a group exhibition at Meltzer Gallery in New York in 1957 and a Swedish traveling exhibition in the USA between 1961 and 1965.
Wrangel initially painted landscapes, still lifes, and interiors, often with an abstract style with her works gradually becoming more and more abstract.
Wrangel is represented in the collections of the National Museum in Stockholm, Malmö Museum, Malmö City Hall, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, USA.
She passed away in Hägerstenat the age of 64 on April 30, 1975.