Ester Almqvist

Ester Dorothea Almqvist (3 November 1869 – 11 June 1934) was a Swedish artist who was a pioneer of Expressionist painting in Sweden. Almqvist was born with a deformed spine that limited her mobility throughout her life but also gave her freedom to study art instead of being confined to housework. Almqvist then studied at the Konstnärsförbundets skola in Stockholm (1894–1895).

Art career Almqvist spent most of her working life in Lund, and some of her best-known paintings are of the surrounding areas of Skåne province. She began exhibiting in the late 1890s and participated in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Almqvist's early work is Impressionist in style and conforms to what was then the prevailing mood of gentle melancholy in Swedish painting.

This page is a partial translation from :sv:Ester Almqvist. Sources cited on that page include: Boëthius, Gerda: "Ester Almqvist". In Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, 1918. (In Swedish) Rausing, Birgit. Ester Almqvist och hennes krets. Lund: Signum, 1998. (In Swedish)