About Lena Börjeson
Lived 1879 – 1976 (aged 96). Lena Börjeson was a Swedish sculptor, teacher, writer, academic administrator, art dealer and painter.
Helena "Lena" Börjeson (13 October 1879 – 14 April 1976) was a Swedish sculptor, writer, art dealer, and the founding director of two arts school. In 1916, she moved to Paris to opened the art gallery Maison Watteau, and she became the director of the associated art school Académie Scandinave in Paris.
Early life and family Helena "Lena" Börjeson was born on 13 October 1879, in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was the daughter of Louise Frederikke Anna-Mathea (Vitté) Bartholin, a Danish aristocrat, and Johan Laurentius Helenus Börjeson, a professor of sculpture at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. In 1923, the first exhibition took place.
After returning to Sweden, she founded Lena Börjeson's Sculpture School in Stockholm in 1940.
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Swedish sculptor (1879–1976)
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Lena Börjeson was born on 13 October 1879 in Copenhagen.
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Lena Börjeson died on 14 April 1976 in Sofia church parish, Stockholm.
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Lena Börjeson was a sculptor, teacher, writer, academic administrator, art dealer and painter.
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Lena Börjeson was Swedish.
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