Siri Derkert
Swedish artist (1888–1973)
Siri Karin Derkert (30 August 1888 – 28 April 1973) was a Swedish artist and sculptor. She was also a strong advocate for peace, feminism and environmental issues.
Life and education
Derkert was born on 30 August 1888 in the parish of Adolf Fredrik Church in Stockholm. She was one of seven children of merchant Carl Edward Johansson Derkert and Emma Charlotta Valborg, born Fogelin. She received her first artistic education at the Caleb Althin school of art in Stockholm, where she started in 1904. She went on to the Royal Institute of Art in 1911–13. Fellow students included Annie Bergman, Elsa Björkman-Goldschmidt, Harriet Löwenhjelm, Ragnhild Nordensten, Gerda Nordling, and Elvi Tondén.
In 1913, Derkert moved to Paris where she studied at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière together with Swedish sculptors Ninnan Santesson and Lisa Bergstrand, until the start of World War I in the autumn of 1914. In February 1914, the three friends spent five weeks in Algiers where Derkert was introduced to more vibrant and bolder colour schemes. During and after the war she spent some time in Italy, where her first child Carlo was born.
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