Misplaced Pages

Marie Kinnberg (1806–30 March 1858) was a pioneering Swedish photographer and painter. In 1851, she learnt how to operate the daguerreotype process and the following year opened a studio in Gothenburg.

Active as a portrait painter, Marie Kinnberg was a student of Bernhard Bendixen and Adolf Meyer, two photographers from Germany, who introduced the then new photographic technique with pictures on paper in Sweden, and gave lessons in this technique during their stay in Gothenburg in the summer of 1851. Marie Kinnberg thus belonged to the pioneers of the new photographic technique in Sweden when she opened her own professional studio in Gothenburg on 8 May 1852. Her study did not last many years, but she was a pioneer both as one of the first to use the new photographic art in Sweden, as well as one of the first women of her profession alongside Brita Sofia Hesselius.

References

1. Dahlman, Eva. "Kvinnliga pionjärer osynliga i fotohistorien" (in Swedish). Göteborgs Universitet. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
2. Blomberg, Eva (2006). Vill ni se en stjärna?: kön, kropp och kläder i Filmjournalen 1919-1953. Nordic Academic Press. pp. 19–. ISBN 978-91-89116-84-9.

This article about a Swedish artist is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Swedish women photographers
• 19th-century Swedish painters
• 1806 births
• 1858 deaths
• People from Gothenburg
• 19th-century Swedish photographers
• Pioneers of photography
• 19th-century Swedish educators
• 19th-century women photographers
• 19th-century Swedish women painters
• Swedish artist stubs