Elsa_Jernås

Elsa Jernås

Elsa Jernås

Swedish graphic artist, painter and costume designer.

Elsa Oskaria Jernås Bacarisas (10 September 1895[1] - December 1979 [2]) was a Swedish graphic artist, painter and costume designer born in Masthuggs Parish, Gothenburg.[3] She was married to Gibraltarian painter Gustavo Bacarisa.[4]

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She was born in Gothenburg on 10 September 1895 to Gustaf Oskar Jernås (then Johansson) and Ida Dahlström.[5] Jernås studied art at Gothenburg's School of Design and Crafts and after her studies was active as a costume designer at various theaters in Gothenburg and Stockholm, including at the Royal Swedish Opera, where she met her future husband in connection with the 1922 staging of Carmen.[6]

After their marriage, the couple moved to Spain, settling in Madrid in 1933. In 1936, as a result of the Spanish Civil War they moved to Gibraltar. During World War II, they spent several years in Funchal, Madeira (1940––1945), finally settling in Seville in 1947.[7] With reference to her work there, the Andalucian specialist Jose de las Cuevas was quoted by Jose Riquelme Sanchez in the magazine Almoraima as having commented: "Elsa... dibujaba burillos deliciosas" (Elsa drew wonderful engravings).[8]

Jernås held a solo exhibition of about fifty works in Barcelona in 1926. Her art consists of landscapes from Sweden and Spain depicted in charcoal drawings, oils, watercolors and lithographs.

References

  1. [1]
    Riksarkivet. "Riksarkivet - Sök i arkiven". sok.riksarkivet.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-05-31.
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    "Sök bland svenska dagstidningar". tidningar.kb.se. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
  3. [3]
    Beyer, Andreas; Savoy, Bénédicte; Tegethoff, Wolf, eds. (2021). "Jernås, Elsa". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online. Berlin, New York: K. G. Saur – via Allgemeines Künsterlexikon Online.
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    "Gustavo Bacarisas | Art Heritage". Gibraltar Cultural Services. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
  5. [5]
    "Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) - samlingspost, Utdrag ur födelse-, vigsel- och dödböcker 1860-1949, SE/RA/420401/01/H 1 AA/1134 (1895) - Riksarkivet - Sök i arkiven". sok.riksarkivet.se. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
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    "Sök bland svenska dagstidningar". tidningar.kb.se. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
  7. [7]
    "Gustavo Bacarisas". Gibraltar Cultural Service. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  8. [8]
    "1930s - Gustavo Bacarisas y Podestá - A Kind of Identity". The People of Gibraltar. Retrieved 1 June 2022.


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