Brita Sofia Hesselius
| Brita Sofia Hesselius | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1801 Alster parish in the Karlstad Municipality, Sweden |
| Died |
1866 Menton, France |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Citizenship | Sweden |
Brita Sofia Hesselius (1801–1866) was a Swedish daguerreotype photographer. She was likely the first professional female photographer of her country.[1]
Hesselius was born in Alster parish in the Karlstad Municipality as the daughter of Olof Hesselius, inspector of an estate, and Anna Katarina Roman. From 1845 to 1853, she managed a girl school in Karlstad. In parallel, she was active with a daguerreotype photographic studio. She was as such the first professional female photographer of her country:[2] before Hedvig Söderström, the first female photographer who opened a studio in Stockholm in 1857, who was long believed to be the first.[3] The painter Marie Kinnberg also performed photography as an assistant and student of Bendixen and Adolph Meyer in Gothenburg in 1851.[4]
Hesselius also performed portraits in oil. In 1853, she moved to Stockholm, and eventually to France, where she died in Menton.
References
- ↑ Värmland förr och nu 1984. Karlstad framför kameran. Bromander, Carl Wilhelm: Från dagerrotypi till kamerakonst. Ett yrkes åttioårshistoria i Karlstad.
- ↑ Karlstad's first professional photographer Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. by Frederick Renard (in Swedish)
- ↑ Dahlman, Eva: Kvinnliga pionjärer, osynliga i fotohistorien (1993)
- ↑ Dahlman, Eva: Kvinnliga pionjärer, osynliga i fotohistorien (1993)
External links
- Karlstad's first professional photographer by Frederick Renard (in Swedish)
- Åkerblom, Claes: Porträttfotogragernas och ateljéernas tid (2008) (in Swedish)