Ida von Schulzenheim

Ida von Schulzenheim.

Ida Eléonora Davida von Schulzenheim (1859-1940) was a Swedish painter. Her foremost motif was paintings of animals.

Ida von Schulzenheim was born to landowner baron David T. von Schulzenheim and Ida Sophia Cederborgh. She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and from 1888 in Paris under Julien Dupré, Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant. She was given an honorary mention at the worlds exhibit in Paris 1889, a silver medal in Amiens in 1890, a gold medal in Stockholm in 1891, an honorary mention in Paris in 1892 and a medal at the world exhibit in Chicago in 1893.

Ida von Schulzenheim is known as the founder of Föreningen Svenska Konstnärinnor (The Society of Swedish Female Artists) in 1910. She also served as its first chairperson. She founded the society to make female artists, who were often not given as much attention as their male colleagues, better possibility to be known and appreciated for their art, and not to actually draw the attention to their gender as such:" You do not actually think, that we female artists would wish to become known merely for being women? I mean, would we wish to exhibit by ourselves, unless we were forced to?"

Ida von Schulzenheim was given the Litteris et Artibus in 1927.

References

• Riksarkivet Föreningen Svenska Konstnärinnor och Ida von Schulzenheim
• Ida von Schulzenheim, Intervju i Idun 1889