Elsa Danson Wåghals

Elsa Danson Wåghals
Born	Anna Ingeborg Elsa Danson 13 January 1885 Stockholm, Sweden
Died	30 March 1977 Lidingö, Sweden
Burial place	Lidingö Cemetery
Other names	Anna Danson, Elsa Danson, Elsa Wåghals
Education	Althins Painting School [sv], Konstfack, Nice Academy of Sculpture, Académie Scandinave, British School at Rome
Movement	Modernism
Partner	Lars Theodor Hyllander (circa 1935)[1]

Elsa Danson Wåghals (née Anna Ingeborg Elsa Danson; 13 January 1885 – 30 March 1977) was a Swedish visual artist, known for painting and sculpture.[2][3]

Biography

Elsa Danson Wåghals was born as Anna Ingeborg Elsa Danson on 13 January 1885, in Stockholm, Sweden. She was one of three daughters of Anna (née Petrini) and accountant Carl August Wilhelm Danson.[4] She took the name Wåghals sometime in the 1910s, it is a family name on her father's side.

During the 1910s she studied at Althins Painting School [sv] and at the Technical School (Swedish: Tekniska skolan; now Konstfack) in Stockholm.[4]

Wåghals worked for seventeen years as a telegraph commissioner at the Royal Telegraph Office, and left her role in 1920 to study art in France.[4]

In Nice, she studied under sculptor Fabio Stecchi, and at the Nice Academy of Sculpture.[5] She studied in 1923 to 1924 with André Lhote, and Otte Sköld at the Académie Scandinave in Paris;[4] as well as studied with Antoine Bourdelle and Ossip Zadkine in Paris.[2][3] While in Paris, she exhibited her work at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Salon d'Automne, Société des Artistes Indépendants, and Salon des Tuileries.[2] Wåghals also studied drawing at the British School at Rome.

Her paintings featured themes of landscapes, and city scenes.[6] Wåghals made public art for Stockholm City Hall.[3]

Wåghals died on 30 March 1977, in Lidingö, Sweden, and is buried in Lidingö Cemetery.[4] Her work can be found in the collection at Östergötland Museum [sv].[7]

References

1. "Hyllander, Lars Theodor (1879 - 1960)". DigitaltMuseum. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
2. "Danson, Elsa". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 31 October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00046662. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
3. Thomæus, Gustave (1980). Svenska konstnärer. Biografisk handbok [Swedish Artists. Biographical Handbook] (in Swedish). pp. 507–508.
4. Hammenbeck, Stefan. "Anna Ingeborg Elsa Danson Wåghals". Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (SKBL) (in Swedish). Retrieved 2025-01-21.
5. Nutida svenskt måleri (in Swedish). Svensk litteratur. 1949. p. 424.
6. "Elsa Wåghals Danson". Lexikonett amanda. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
7. "Nakenstudie [Gouache målning]". Östergötland museum. Retrieved 2025-01-21.