Ida Gisiko-Spärck
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View from the coast at Skotterup in Denmark.
Signed Ida Gisiko-Spärck and dated Skotterup -97. Oil on paper mounted on cardboard, 16 x 23 cm.
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Ida Emma Charlotta Gisiko-Spärck (1859-1940) was a Swedish artist associated with the so-called Önningeby Colony. She was admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1882, where she remained until 1887. Among her fellow students were many now well-known artists such as Hanna Pauli, Lotten Rönquist, Hilma af Klint, Gerda Roosval-Kallstenius, Gottfried Kallstenius, Anselm Schultzberg, Carl Flodman, among others.
During the summer of 1886, Gisiko-Spärck participated in an artists' excursion to Kungsör led by the academy professor and artist Per Daniel Holm. Several of the aforementioned artist colleagues were also part of this trip. At the end of the 1880s, she studied in Paris and was primarily known for her landscape motifs.
Gisiko-Spärck was one of the artists who gathered around the Finnish painter Victor Westerholm in the Önningeby Colony, an artists' colony on Åland during the period 1886–1914. Gisiko-Spärck spent several summers there in the late 1880s and early 1890s. In 1894, she married Johan Albert Spärck (1840–1903) and moved to Denmark.