artist: Eva Holmberg-Jacobsson (Swedish 1910-2003)
medium: mixed media on paper
dimensions: 44 x 36 cm art size / 56 x 49 cm frame size (approx)
signed and dated 56
presented in a new teak stained timber frame with archival mat and non-reflective UV glass
AU $730 (approx US $515 / 440 EUROS / 82,000 yen / 385 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist biography
Eva Hilda Elsa Holmberg-Jacobsson was born March 3, 1910 in Malmö. She was a Swedish artist.
She was the daughter of the engineer Carl Holmberg and Gerda Helena Jonasson and from 1942 married to captain Karl-Erik Jacobsson. She studied at the Skånska målarskolan in Malmö in 1927, at the Otte Skölds målarskolan in Stockholm in 1929, and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. She took private study trips to Hungary, Spain and France.
Holmberg-Jacobsson exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout her career. Select solo exhibitions include the SDS-hallen in Malmö in 1942, the Malmö Museum in 1946, andthe Svartbrödrakloster in Lund in 1952. She regularly showed at group exhibitions with the Skånes konstförening and Helsingborgs konstförening. She painted still life and figurative works, landscapes and cityscapes from France, often with in a fresh and lovely palette. Holmberg-Jacobsson is represented in the public collections of the Malmö Museum, Helsingborg Museum, Trelleborg Museum and the Landskrona Museum.
She passed away in Helsingborg at the age of 93 on April 22, 2003.
* An example of the one of the works held in the Helsingborg Museum in Sweden can be viewed HERE.