Julia Beck - Artist Info

About Julia Beck

  • Biography

    Julia Beck (20 December 1853 - 1935) was a Swedish painter and callligrapher. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of Franz Beck, a bookkeeper. She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts(1872–78) and then at the Académie Julian in Paris (1883–84), where her teachers included Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme.

    Afterwards, she settled in France, where she was to spend most of the rest of her life. For a time she rented a studio in Paris with Harriet Backer, Hildegard Thorell, and Anna Munthe-Norstedt, and she also spent time at the Grez-sur-Loing art colony.

    As a professional artist, she specialized in portraits for financial reasons, and she was one of the few Swedish women artists of her generation able t...

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