Gerda Ahlm

Artist Details

• First Name Gerda
• Middle Name Maria
• Maiden Name Ahlm
• Alternate Name(s) Zerdu Ahlm
• Surname Ahlm
• Birth Date May 24, 1869
• Birth Place Vasteras, Sweden
• Death Date August 26, 1956
• Death Place Chicago, Illinois
• Ethnicity C
• Residence(s) Stockholm, Sweden
  
  1903 - 1956: Chicago, Illinois
  
  1906: 3964 Langley Ave., Chicago, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) 1574 Kenmore Ave., Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Painter-Acrylic
• Training 1889-1891:  Royal Swedish Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
  1896:  Axel Tallberg
  Académie Colarossi, Paris, France
  Alte Pinakothek, Munich
   
  
• Relevant Travel Belgium, England, Italy, Norway
• Subject(s) of Art domestic interiors landscapes portraits of women
• Exhibitions History 1905, 1906: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1905: Old Homestead, Sweden)
  
  1905, 1911, 1912: Swedish-American art exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Berlin, Dresden, and Munich Germany
  
  Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  Stockholm, Sweden
• Collections Queen Silvia of Sweden
• Memberships Chicago Artists' Guild
  
  L'Union International des Beaux Arts et des Lettres
  
  Swedish Academy of Art
  
   
• Other Occupation(s) painting conservator
• Biography Ahlm trained in art conservation with F.C. Sessig at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.  Her talent won her a number of important commissions, including restoring family portraits belonging to Queen Victoria of Sweden. In 1903, she took a position as assistant restorer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York.  She eventually settle in Chicago (in mid-1910s?), where she worked as an art conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago as well as other art institutions and for private collectors, becoming one of this country's top conservators.