Ester Almqvist

Ester Dorothea Almqvist (3 November 1869 – 11 June 1934) was a Swedish artist who was a pioneer of Expressionist painting in Sweden.

She had specified in her will that her collection of oil and watercolour paintings, charcoal, pastel and ink drawings, graphic pages and sketchbooks should be donated to that particular museum.

[4] Almqvist was born with a deformed spine that limited her mobility throughout her life but also gave her freedom to study art instead of being confined to housework.

Almqvist's early work is Impressionist in style and conforms to what was then the prevailing mood of gentle melancholy in Swedish painting.

[3] Almqvist belonged to a group of Swedish women artists who traveled, worked, exhibited, and sometimes lived together, including Tora Vega Holmström, Agnes Wieslander, and Maja Fjæstad.

Ester Almqvist, ca. 1890–93.
Ester Almqvist, The Sawmill , oil on canvas, 1914.
Ester Almqvist, The Meeting , 1929.
[ 1 ] Ester Almqvist, The old fashioned priest's daughter.