Gerda Maria Ahlm timeline

BORN: May 25, 1869[1] Vesteros, Sweden

DIED: August 26, 1956 Chicago

MARRIED: Never

TRAINING

c.1890 Stockholm Royal Academy

1905, 1906, 1919 Art Institute of Chicago, evenings

Alte Pinakothek, Munich[2]

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

1918-1930s[3] Paintings conservator

TEACHING

RESIDENCES

1869-1903 Sweden

1903-1956 Chicago

TRAVEL

MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES

Nya Jdun[4]

HONORS

1929 Scandinavian-American Art Association annual, Chicago

SELECTED JURIES SERVED

GROUP EXHIBITIONS[5]

Swedish-American Art Association at Anderson Galleries Chicago 1905[6]

Swedish-American Artists annual, Chicago 1911, 1912, 1915, 1935, 1937, 1946-1948, 1951, 1953

Stockholm; Berlin; Dresden; Munich; Copenhagen

World’s Columbian Exposition, Swedish section 1893[7]

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Queen Sophia of Swedn

INTERESTING NOTES

Specializing in miniatures, she also was a conservator of paintings.

[1]She listed 1877 on her student registration card at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago which conflicts with her death record.

[2]“Gerda Ahlm,” Annual Report of the Artists’ Guild, (Chicago: The Artists' Guild, 1917), p.13.

[3]“Notes by the Way,” in “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 10/12/1920, p.11. Advertisement, Chicago Evening Post, 10/25/1932, Art Section, p.7.

[4]Op. cit., “Gerda Ahlm,” Annual Report…, p.13.

[5]Op. cit., “Gerda Ahlm,” Annual Report …, p.13.

[6]The work is reviewed in Lena M. McCauley, “Art and Artists,” Chicago Evening Post, 10/28/1905, p.9.

[7]“The Fine Arts,” Chicago Tribune, 11/27/1892, p.26.