Annie Bergman (15 December 1889 - 11 January 1987)[1] was a Swedish artist, writer, and children's book author.
[3] Bergman finished secondary education in 1907, then undertook preparatory art courses at Tekniska skolan and at Caleb Althin's painting school.
She studied alongside Elsa Björkman-Goldschmidt,[5] Siri Derkert,[6] Harriet Löwenhjelm,[7] Ragnhild Nordensten, Gerda Nordling, and Elvi Tondén.
She spent a year in Italy, touring the country and spending time in Florence, Sienna, Rome and Naples.
Bergman moved to Paris in early 1914, taking classes at the Académie de la Grand Chaumière, but returned to Sweden with the outbreak of the First World War.
[2] She developed a series of theatre caricatures in the 1920s[8] and wrote and illustrated of her own fairy tale books, inspired by telling stories to her nieces and nephews.