Ida Gisiko-Spärck

Ida Emma Charlotta Gisiko-Spärck (1859–1940) was a Swedish painter, who became a member of the Önningeby artists colony on Åland. She is remembered for her landscapes in oils.

Biography Born on 18 November 1859 in Stockholm, Ida Gisiko was the daughter of the wholesale merchant Karl Samuel Gisiko and Emma Loviisa Wetterling. Her brother Carl Edvard was married to Ida Björck, the sister of the Swedish artist Oscar Björck.

She enrolled at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm in 1882 and finished in 1887. During her studies in 1886, Ida took part in an excursion under Per Daniel Holm to Kungsör.

Her paintings were first exhibited at the Southern Sweden Art Society in 1887, and afterwards in 1889, 1890, and 1896. In 1891, some of her works were exhibited at the Valand School of Art in Gothenburg. In 1890, she joined the Swedish Artists' Association.

In 1894, she married the Danish administrator Johan Albert Spärck (1840–1903) and moved to Denmark. Their son, Ragnar Spärk, was born in 1896, and became a zoologist. She died in 1940.

Style and Works Ida Gisiko painted landscapes with oil on canvas, especially sea shores and countryside. She painted in Sweden, Ålands, and Denmark. From her Parisian period, the most well-known work is A Street in Paris (1899). List of paintings: Summer in Archipelago, date unknown Cabbage Plot, 1890 Fruit Trees in Bloom, date unknown Waves Against the Shore. Skagen, 1893 The Village Street, 1895 Skagen Dunes, date unknown Waiting on the Shore, 1899 The Red Cottage, 1909 A Country Road, date unknown Coastal Landscape, date unknown