Harriet Löwenhjelm

Harriet Löwenhjelm

Harriet Augusta Dorotea Löwenhjelm (18 February 1887 – 24 May 1918) was a Swedish artist and poet. She mainly considered herself an artist. She died at Romanäs sanatory in Tranås after some years of tuberculosis.

Family[]

Löwenhjelm was the daughter of colonel Gustaf Adolf Löwenhjelm (1842–1929) and Margareta, née Dickson (born 1853). She had five siblings. Her older brother, Carl Löwenhjelm, was a medical doctor, and the younger one, Chrispin Löwenhjelm (1892–1983), was an officer and chamberlain. Her cousin was a docent in French at Lund University. She accompanied Löwenhjelm on a trip to Paris and in different ways inspired her in her poetic works. Mörner also introduced Löwenhjelm's poems and pictures into the literary Sweden of the 1920s.

Education[]

Löwenhjelm studied at Anna Sandström's higher teacher seminary, Kerstin Cardon's drawing school, Konstakademien (1909–1911) and for the previous superintendent of Valands konstskola, professor Carl Wilhelmson.

Literary production[]

Some of Löwenhjelm's most well-known poems are Jakt på fågel ("Bird hunt"), Tag mig. Håll mig. Smek mig sakta. ("Take me. Hold me. Caress me gently.") and Beatrice-Aurore, which has been set to music by Hjalmar Casserman. Her poems originally were a complement to her drawings. Her later poetry were filled of awareness of death and has a deepened religious dimension. Löwenhjelms poems were published posthumously in 1919.

Bibliography[]

• Dikter med dem tillhörande teckningar (1919)
• Brev och dikter (1952)
• Harriet Löwenhjelms bönbok (Manuscripts posthumously published in 1963)

Literature[]

• Elsa Björkman-Goldschmidt: Harriet Löwenhjelm (1947)
• Elsa Björkman-Goldschmidt (ed.): Brev och dikter, Harriet Löwenhjelm med teckningar av författarinnan (1952)
• Lars Elleström: Från Lenngren till Lugn. En ironisk historia ISBN 9113013874 (2005)
• Boel Hackman: Att skjuta en dront, ISBN 9789100111076 (2011)

Further reading[]

• Harriet Löwenhjelm at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon

External links[]

• Harriet Löwenhjelm at the Swedish Wikisource
• Harriet Löwenhjelm-sällskapet - Literary Society
• About Harriet Löwenhjelm at the Dickson family website

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