Biography: 1930-1940
Symptoms of persecution mania
 In
1932 Sigrid decides to move back to Stockholm, in the hope of getting
a normal family life at last. But during packing she collapses.
She gets to Sweden and is taken to the mental hospital of Beckomberga
with symptoms of persecution mania.
Major exhibition and increasing illness
During 1934 the artist recovers periodically and makes travels with
her family in the south of Europe, where she paints. Sigrid Hjertén
makes her name as an artist among the critics in 1935, when she
is exhibiting with Isaac and Iv‡n in Gothenburg. In the following
year she has her first major one-man exhibition at the Academy of
Fine Arts in Stockholm. It is well received, but the painter is
now very ill and returns to Beckomberga where she remains until
her death. Isaac, who has had many mistresses over the years, divorces
Sigrid and remarries. Both he and his wife dies in a flying accident
in 1946.
The last years
After 1938 Sigrid Hjertén hardly paints anything, but she
participates with works of art at the exhibition of young expressionism
at the National Gallery in Stockholm in 1944. She dies after an
abortive lobotomy in 1948.
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