Siri Karin Derkert - Artist Info

About Siri Karin Derkert

  • Biography

    Siri Karin Derkert, a Swedish artist, was born 30 August 1888 in the Adolf Fredrik Church in Stockholm and died 28 April 1973 in Lidingo, Sweden.

    Siri was born in Stockholm in 1888 as one of seven children to the merchant Carl Edward Johansson Derkert and Emma Charlotta Valborg. Siri was educated at Althin art school in Stockholm in 1904 and at the Academy of Art 1911-1913. Subsequently, she studied art in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere with Ninnan Santesson and Lisa Bergstrand (Bergstrand-Paulsson) until the outbreak of World War autumn of 1914.

    During and after the First World War, she lived periodically in Italy, where her first child Carlo was born. Siri also studied at the female ...

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