Harriet Löwenhjelm

Harriet Löwenhjelm studied at Carl Wilhelmson Art School. The recorded working language is Swedish. The field of work recorded is literature, poetry and art. Works named in the authority record are Beatrice-Aurore. Work by Harriet Löwenhjelm is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum.

• Name — Harriet Löwenhjelm • Birth Name — Harriet Augusta Dorothea Löwenhjelm • Born — 18 February 1887 • Birthplace — Helsingborg, Sweden • Died — 24 May 1918 • Place of death — Småland, Sweden • Education — Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Konstakademien • Occupation — Painter, poet

Löwenhjelm was born on 18 February 1887, in Helsingborg, in Scania, Sweden. She was the daughter of colonel Gustaf Adolf Löwenhjelm (1842–1929) and Margareta, née Dickson (born 1853). She had five siblings. Her older brother, Carl Löwenhjelm, was a medical doctor, and the younger one, Chrispin Löwenhjelm (1892–1983), was an officer and chamberlain. Her cousin Marianne Mörner was a docent in French at Lund University. She accompanied Löwenhjelm on a trip to Paris and in different ways inspired her in her poetic works. Mörner also introduced Löwenhjelm's poems and pictures into the literary Sweden of the 1920s.

Löwenhjelm studied at Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, followed by Anna Sandström's higher teacher seminary, Kerstin Cardon's drawing school, Konstakademien (1909–1911) and for the previous superintendent of Valands konstskola, professor Carl Wilhelmson.

Some of Löwenhjelm's most well-known poems are "Jakt på fågel (Bird hunt), "Tag mig. Håll mig. Smek mig sakta." (Take me. Hold me. Caress me gently.) and "Beatrice-Aurore", which has been set to music by Hjalmar Casserman. Her poems originally were a complement to her drawings. Her later poetry were filled of awareness of death and has a deepened religious dimension. Löwenhjelms poems were published posthumously in 1919.

Harriet Löwenhjelm is recorded as poet, painter, draftsperson, writer and artist. Identity and origins. Her recorded language was Swedish. She was the child of Gustaf Adolf Löwenhjelm. Other recorded relations include Marianne Mörner.