Clara Miranda Almér
Clara Miranda Almér with the girl´s
name of Schmiedte was born in 1835. She worked as a teacher and
was married to a schoolteacher. She was gifted but sometimes she
could become queer and exalted, and in course of time she became
increasingly irritable and violent. During a period in 1882 she
was nursed at the hospital of Ystad, Sweden, for "melancholia"
and "hysteria" .
Contstantly writing, drawing and sewing
In 1888 at the age of 53 Clara Almér gets ill again and stays
for a month at the Akademiska hospital in Uppsala, with the diagnosis
of "mania hysterica". In the same year she is brought
to the mental hospital of Sankt Lars in Lund. There her illness
is first called "mania" and towards the end "psychosis
periodica". The causes behind the mental disease of Clara Almér
are overwork, economical troubles and an unhappy marriage, according
to the case-book. There one can also read that Clara Almér
is occupied with creative activities: "Contstantly writing,
drawing and so on, sews and draws pictures of people, animals, plants
etc." When she has injured her leg she gets a crutch, but she
does not use the crutch so much for supporting herself on, as for
painting funny figures and hieroglyphics on. Clara Almér
dies in 1913.
Collage of embroidery and out-cutted characters
in a comic strip, by Clara Almér.
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