Eva Bagge

Eva Bagge (15 December 1871 – 6 November 1964) was a Swedish painter who studied first in Sweden and then made study trips to Rome and Paris. Remembered in particular for her farm scenes and interiors, she did not reach her peak until 1941 when works based on her approach to late 19th-century Realism attracted attention at her solo exhibition in a Stockholm gallery. Such was the interest that they were soon exhibited in Munich and Berlin. Several Swedish art museums, including Stockholm's Nationalmuseum, have works by Bagge in their collections.

Biography Born on 15 December 1871 in Stockholm, Eva Bagge was the daughter of the printing press director Per Olof Bagge (1833–1872) and his wife Henrika Ottiliana née von Fieandt. She was the youngest of the family's three children and the cousin of artist . After her father died when she was still a baby, she was brought up by her mother in Stockholm. From 1892 to 1895, she studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts under Georg von Rosen and Gustaf Cederström. Not happy with the emphasis on historical painting at the Academy, after spending a short period at Konstnärsförbundets skola ('the Artists' Association School') from 1894 to 1895, she took a study trip to Rome in 1896 and the following year moved to Paris where she attended the Académie Colarossi and spent the summer in Brittany.

Eva Bagge died in Stockholm on 6 November 1964; she is buried in Norra begravningsplatsen. Several Swedish art museums, including Stockholm's Nationalmuseum, have works by Bagge in their collections.