Charlotte Wahlström 1849-1924

Charlotte Wahlström was born on November 17, 1849, in Svärta. In 1878, she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and was awarded a royal medal for her landscape painting in 1883. She then traveled across Europe to study in Paris, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. She regularly exhibited her works in Stockholm, as well as in Denmark and Germany.

In 1889, Wahlström joined the Barbizon artists’ colony for a brief period. In 1904, her paintings were awarded a bronze medal at the St. Louis World’s Fair in the United States. In 1911, she received a prize from the Swedish magazine Idun.

Between 1885 and 1887, she participated in collective exhibitions organized by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden and the Swedish Public Art Society. In 1893, her work was shown at the Palace of Fine Arts during the Chicago World’s Fair.

Wahlström’s paintings focus primarily on Swedish landscapes, particularly those of the Värmland and Dalarna counties. She made use of natural pigments derived from dye plants.

Charlotte Wahlström died on February 22, 1924, in Stockholm. Part of her work is preserved in the collection of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, and her paintings are also held by the Moderna Museet Malmö, the Jamtli Museum in Östersund, and the museums of Gothenburg and Örebro County.