Biografi: the period between 1912-1918
Several exhibitions in Sweden and abroad
In 1912 Sigrid Hjertén participates in a group show in Stockholm.
In the following ten years she takes part in several exhibitions
both in Sweden and abroad, among other places in Berlin in 1915,
where she is well received. Sigrid Hjertén is also represented
at the Expressionist Exhibition at Liljevalch's Konsthall in Stockholm
in 1918, together with two other artists. However, most of the critics
then write scathing reviews about her art.
Warm relation but marriage with great
problems
 Sigrid,
whose husband was a Jew, lived in a time which was characterized
by oppression of women and anti-Semitism. For long periods she lived
alone with her son and a sister of her husband. Sigrid and Isaac
seem to have been very attached to one another, but their marriage
met with great problems. Sigrid apparently had difficulties with
her identity as a woman and in combining her different roles as
a mother, a wife and an artist. The conflicts of Sigrid's life have
made a mark in her painting.
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