BORN: May 25, 1869i 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, Munichii

ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT

1918-1930siii Paintings conservator

TEACHING

RESIDENCES

1869-1903 Sweden

1903-1956 Chicago

TRAVEL

MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES

Nya Jduniv

HONORS

1929 Scandinavian-American Art Association annual, Chicago

SELECTED JURIES SERVED

GROUP EXHIBITIONSv

Swedish-American Art Association at Anderson Galleries Chicago 1905vi

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 1893vii

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Queen Sophia of Swedn

INTERESTING NOTES

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

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

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

iii“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.

ivOp. cit., “Gerda Ahlm,” Annual Report…, p.13.

vOp. cit., “Gerda Ahlm,” Annual Report …, p.13.

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

vii“The Fine Arts,” Chicago Tribune, 11/27/1892, p.26.