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      "description": "Broman, Gunnar, 'F\u00f6reningen svenska konstn\u00e4rinnor i Wien', *Dagens Nyheter*, 1913-10-22",
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      "type_eng": "Literature"
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      "description": "Gustavsson, Karin, 'Gisela Trapp: glimtar ur en konsulinnas liv', *Kring K\u00e4rnan.*, 1997 (26), s. 43-63, 1997",
      "type": "Litteratur",
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    },
    {
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      "type": "Litteratur",
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    {
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    {
      "description": "P\u00e5lsson, Erik Kennet, *Utsikt \u00f6ver Munkav\u00e5ngen: en tillbakablick p\u00e5 Helsingborgs katolska historia : minnesskrift vid St Clemens katolska kyrkas 50-\u00e5rsjubileum*, [Catholica], [Helsingborg], 1978",
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    {
      "description": "Ramsay, Margareta (red.), *Konstn\u00e4rerna hos Mor Cilla: nordiska m\u00e5lare i Arildsl\u00e4ge, 1856-1913*, Krapperups museum, Nyhamnsl\u00e4ge, 1987",
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    {
      "description": "Schmidten, Yngve von, 'Sk\u00e5nsk konst', *Idun*, 1903:49, S. 647-649 (H\u00e4mtad 2021-05-25)",
      "type": "Litteratur",
      "type_eng": "Literature",
      "url": "http://hdl.handle.net/2077/50219"
    },
    {
      "description": "Roosval, Johnny & Lilja, G\u00f6sta (red.), *Svenskt konstn\u00e4rslexikon: tiotusen svenska konstn\u00e4rers liv och verk. 5, Sallinen-\u00d6vrabym\u00e4staren*, Allhem, Malm\u00f6, 1967",
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  "subtitle": "Konstn\u00e4r, illustrat\u00f6r, mecenat",
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  "text": "Gisela Trapp var barnboksillustrat\u00f6r och konstn\u00e4r. Hon var en nyckelperson i kretsen av svenska katolska konvertiter under 1900-talet och en av Helsingborgs stora mecenater.\n\nGisela Trapp f\u00f6ddes 1873 och v\u00e4xte upp i en borgerlig familj i Helsingborg som yngst av tre systrar. En yngre bror dog i sp\u00e4d \u00e5lder. Hennes far, Carl Joachim Henckel, var handelsman, hade m\u00e5nga kommunala uppdrag och var grundare av Helsingborgs Varfs AB 1866. Modern Ida Henckel var betydligt yngre \u00e4n sin make, och liksom han kom hon fr\u00e5n en familj som var v\u00e4l etablerad i Helsingborg sedan flera generationer. Familjen bodde i centrala staden och tillbringade, likt m\u00e5nga andra ur stadens borgerliga skikt, somrarna i fiskel\u00e4get Arild.\n\nGisela Trapps konstn\u00e4rliga talang visade sig tidigt. P\u00e5 1890-talet illustrerade hon flera verk \u00e5t f\u00f6rfattaren och folklivsforskaren [](Eva Wigstr\u00f6m) som ocks\u00e5 var bosatt i Helsingborg. Genom Eva Wigstr\u00f6m kn\u00f6t hon kontakter med Svensk L\u00e4raretidnings f\u00f6rlag, som stod bakom publikationerna i serien *Barnbiblioteket Saga*. Fr\u00e5n slutet av 1890-talet och fram till 1940- talet var Gisela Trapp \u00e5terkommande som illustrat\u00f6r \u00e5t flera olika f\u00f6rlag, fr\u00e4mst av litteratur f\u00f6r barn, men med tiden ocks\u00e5 i olika katolska publikationer, liksom i nykterhetsr\u00f6relsens tidskrift *Sol* och dess barntidning *Sn\u00f6bollen*, och vid n\u00e5got tillf\u00e4lle i *Ord & Bild*. Hennes barnboksillustrationer pr\u00e4glas av humor och detaljrikedom och en f\u00f6ljsamhet till den text hennes bilder skulle beledsaga.\n\nSamtidigt som Gisela Trapp p\u00e5 1890-talet var verksam som illustrat\u00f6r m\u00e5lade hon i b\u00e5de olja och akvarell. Familjens sommarvistelser i Arild inspirerade till friluftsm\u00e5leri, och betande djur och pastorala landskap kom ofta att bli hennes motiv. I Arild fanns ett antal b\u00e5de danska och svenska konstn\u00e4rer som \u00e5terkommande sommarg\u00e4ster, och umg\u00e4nget med dessa stimulerade henne som konstn\u00e4r. Hon kom i kontakt med bland andra Mina Carlsson Bredberg och Elisabeth Keyser, som hon ocks\u00e5 fick undervisning av. Gisela Trapp fick lektioner i K\u00f6penhamn av konstn\u00e4ren Niels Pedersen Mols, som gjorde sig k\u00e4nd som skildrare av landskap och djur, centrala motiv ocks\u00e5 f\u00f6r Gisela Trapp. Den sk\u00e5nske konstkritikern Yngve von Schmidten lovordade hennes bidrag *F\u00e5r p\u00e5 bete* till Sk\u00e5nska konstn\u00e4rslagets utst\u00e4llning i Malm\u00f6 \u00e5r 1900, en av de f\u00f6rsta utst\u00e4llningar hon medverkade i.\n\n\u00c5r 1902 gifte hon sig med Oscar Trapp. Makarna hade gemensamma intressen i Helsingborgs och Kullabygdens historia och medeltidens minnesm\u00e4rken, \u00e4mnen som ofta fick genomslag i Gisela Trapps konstn\u00e4rliga verksamhet. Makarna bosatte sig p\u00e5 egendomen Fredriksdal i Helsingborg, som Oscar Trapp k\u00f6pt 1898, och de hade ocks\u00e5 en tomt i Arild d\u00e4r de l\u00e4t bygga ett hus. Gifterm\u00e5let hindrade inte Gisela Trapp i hennes konstn\u00e4rliga verksamhet. Hon var med om att starta F\u00f6reningen Svenska konstn\u00e4rinnor och deltog v\u00e5ren 1911 i en utst\u00e4llning som f\u00f6reningen arrangerade i Stockholm, liksom i f\u00f6reningens utst\u00e4llning i Wien 1913. En annan sammanslutning d\u00e4r hon var medlem var Sk\u00e5nska konstn\u00e4rslaget, vars utst\u00e4llningar i Malm\u00f6 1903 och 1913 och i Helsingborg 1915 hon medverkade i.\n\nBland sommarg\u00e4sterna i Arild fanns f\u00f6rfattaren [](Helena Nyblom) fr\u00e5n Uppsala. Hon tillh\u00f6rde den lilla skaran nordiska katoliker och hade kontakter med jesuiterna i Ordrup norr om K\u00f6penhamn. M\u00f6jligen var det hon som inspirerade Gisela Trapp till att ta kontakt f\u00f6r att f\u00e5 undervisning d\u00e4r. \u00c5r 1913 genomf\u00f6rde Gisela Trapp sin konversion i Ordrup, men hon gav inte offentlighet \u00e5t detta f\u00f6rr\u00e4n efter sin makes d\u00f6d.\n\nMakarna Trapp hade bland annat bes\u00f6kt Rom tillsammans, och f\u00f6re sitt gifterm\u00e5l hade Gisela Trapp rest till flera st\u00e4der p\u00e5 kontinenten tillsammans med sin syster Carola, d\u00e4r de upps\u00f6kt olika medeltida helgedomar. Intresset f\u00f6r b\u00e5de religi\u00f6sa ritualer och traditioner liksom medeltida konst och arkitektur kom att p\u00e5verka hennes bildv\u00e4rld allt mer. I november 1903 medverkade hon med flera verk p\u00e5 den utst\u00e4llning som Sk\u00e5nska konstn\u00e4rslaget arrangerade p\u00e5 Malm\u00f6 Museer. En m\u00e5lning f\u00f6rest\u00e4llde helgonet S:t Dunstan, och helgon som motiv kom att dominera efter hennes konversion tio \u00e5r senare. D\u00e5 inledde hon ett m\u00e5ng\u00e5rigt konstn\u00e4rskap i katolska kyrkans tj\u00e4nst, d\u00e4r hon ofta utf\u00f6rde m\u00e5lningar av olika lokala helgon till de kyrkobyggnader som uppf\u00f6rdes under f\u00f6rsta halvan av 1900-talet.\n\nOscar Trapp avled 1916, och tv\u00e5 \u00e5r senare donerade Gisela Trapp st\u00f6rre delen av egendomen Fredriksdal till Helsingborgs stad. \u00c4ndam\u00e5let var att ett friluftsmuseum och en botanisk tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rd skulle etableras p\u00e5 platsen. Ett stycke s\u00f6der om Fredriksdal l\u00e5g den s\u00e5 kallade Henckelska tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rden, ett markomr\u00e5de som ocks\u00e5 ben\u00e4mndes Munkav\u00e5ngen, eftersom det under medeltiden h\u00f6rt till det dominikanerkonvent som d\u00e5 fanns i Helsingborg. Genom ekonomiskt bist\u00e5nd fr\u00e5n Gisela Trapps mor Ida Henckel kunde en katolsk kyrka b\u00f6rja byggas d\u00e4r 1926, p\u00e5 mark som Gisela Trapp donerat till den nybildade f\u00f6rsamlingen. Drivande i f\u00f6rsamlingsetableringen var den svenske pr\u00e4sten Berndt David Assarsson, som kom att bli en n\u00e4ra v\u00e4n till Gisela Trapp och 1927 blev kyrkoherde i den nygrundade katolska f\u00f6rsamlingen i Helsingborg. Kyrkobyggnaden invigdes 1928 av biskopen Johannes Erik M\u00fcller, som \u00e4ven han kom att bli hennes n\u00e4ra v\u00e4n.\n\nP\u00e5 sin fastighet i Arild l\u00e4t Gisela Trapp 1920\u20131921 bygga ett kapell, som \u00e4r en f\u00f6rminskad kopia av det medeltida kapell som finns i byn. Inv\u00e4ndigt smyckade hon v\u00e4ggarna med bilder som illustrerar den medeltida Arildslegenden. I S:t Clemens kyrka i Helsingborg gjorde hon v\u00e4ggm\u00e5lningar f\u00f6rest\u00e4llande bland annat det himmelska Jerusalem, m\u00e5lningar som dock f\u00f6rsvann i samband med kyrkans om- och tillbyggnad p\u00e5 1960-talet. I Oskarstr\u00f6m i Halland uppf\u00f6rdes en katolsk kyrka 1925 d\u00e4r Gisela Trapp utf\u00f6rde b\u00e5de altartavla och interi\u00f6rm\u00e5lningar. Mycket av detta har m\u00e5lats \u00f6ver i samband med olika renoveringar.\n\n\u00c5r 1921 arrangerade Helsingborgs museum en utst\u00e4llning med Gisela Trapps konst d\u00e4r s\u00e5 gott som samtliga verk bar religi\u00f6s pr\u00e4gel. Detta kom att bli hennes sista stora utst\u00e4llning. Hon fortsatte att m\u00e5la, men l\u00e4mnade de konstn\u00e4rsorganisationer hon varit medlem i tidigare. Hon fortsatte ocks\u00e5 som illustrat\u00f6r, bland annat i b\u00f6cker av Augustin Kock och Berndt David Assarsson liksom \u00e5t tidskrifter som *Credo* och *Hemmet och helgedomen*, utgivna av katolska kyrkan i Sverige. \u00c4ven om hennes motivkrets var f\u00f6r\u00e4ndrad, fortsatte k\u00e4rleken till djur att ha genomslag i hennes konst, och den humoristiska \u00e5dran som pr\u00e4glat hennes tidiga illustrationer syns ofta ocks\u00e5 i hennes senare verk.\n\nGisela Trapp fortsatte att periodvis bo p\u00e5 Fredriksdal i Helsingborg fram till andra v\u00e4rldskriget d\u00e5 hon bosatte sig permanent i Arild. Hon hade ocks\u00e5 tillg\u00e5ng till en bostad hos katolska f\u00f6rsamlingen i Helsingborg. \u00c5r 1952 uppm\u00e4rksammades Gisela Trapp av sin hemstad n\u00e4r hon fick den s\u00e5 kallade Helsingborgsmedaljen, en hedersutm\u00e4rkelse som b\u00f6rjat delas ut 1949. Hon var en av de f\u00f6rsta kvinnorna som erh\u00f6ll denna utm\u00e4rkelse.\n\nGisela Trapp var verksam som konstn\u00e4r \u00e4nda fram till sin d\u00f6d 1958. Hon \u00e4r begravd p\u00e5 Gamla kyrkog\u00e5rden i Helsingborg. Gisela Trapps donationer fortsatte livet ut. Hon testamenterade hela egendomen i Arild, med tv\u00e5 bostadshus och kapell p\u00e5 en vidstr\u00e4ckt tomt, till katolska kyrkan i Sverige.",
  "text_eng": "Gisela Trapp was an illustrator of children\u2019s books and an artist. She was a key figure of Swedish converts to Catholicism in the 1900s and she was one of the major patrons of the arts in Helsingborg. \n\nGisela Trapp was born in 1873. She and her two elder sisters grew up within a bourgeois Helsingborg family. A younger brother had died in infancy. Her father, Carl Joachim Henckel, was a merchant who held a lot of municipal positions and was the founder of Helsingborgs Varfs AB in 1866. Her mother, Ida Henckel, was considerably younger than her husband and just like him belonged to a long-established Helsingborg family with a heritage of several generations\u2019 standing. Gisela Trapp and her family lived in central Helsingborg. They spent their summers in the fishing village of Arild, as was common amongst bourgeois town-dwellers at the time.  \n\nGisela Trapp\u2019s artistic talents began to reveal themselves at an early age. During the 1890s she illustrated several works for the author and folklore scholar [](Eva Wigstr\u00f6m) who also lived in Helsingborg. It was through Eva Wigstr\u00f6m that Gisela Trapp forged a connection with the Svensk l\u00e4raretidnings f\u00f6rlag (Swedish teachers\u2019 journal publishers) which was responsible for the *Barnbiblioteket Saga* series. From the late 1890s and right through until the 1940s Gisela Trapp frequently supplied illustrations for several different publishers, primarily those producing children\u2019s literature, but increasingly also for Catholic publications such as the temperance movement\u2019s journal *Sol* and its children\u2019s magazine *Sn\u00f6bollen*, as well as sometimes for *Ord & Bild*. Gisela Trapp\u2019s children\u2019s book illustrations were characterised by their humour and a richness of detail as well as their relevance to the associated text. \n\nWhilst Gisela Trapp was working as an illustrator during the 1890s she also created paintings, both in oils and watercolours. The family\u2019s summer visits to Arild inspired her to paint *en plain air* where grazing animals and pastoral landscapes tended to be her main motifs. Her family received a number of returning visitors to Arild, including both Danish and Swedish artists, and this socialising provided Gisela Trapp with artistic stimulation. Some of her contacts, such as Mina Carlsson Bredberg and Elisabeth Keyser, also gave her artistic instruction. Further, Gisela Trapp took lessons in Copenhagen from Niels Pedersen Mols, an artist who made his name as a painter of landscapes and animals which, as already noted, were common themes in Gisela Trapp\u2019s work. The Scanian art critic Yngve von Schmidten lauded Gisela Trapp\u2019s contribution entitled *F\u00e5r p\u00e5 bete* which she submitted to Sk\u00e5nska konstn\u00e4rslaget (the Scanian artists\u2019 association) exhibition in Malm\u00f6 in 1900s. This was one of her earliest exhibitions. \n\nGisela Trapp married Oscar Trapp in 1902. They shared a common interest in the histories of Helsingborg and Kullabygden as well as medieval heritage sites \u2013 all of which were elements which found their way into Gisela Trapp\u2019s artistic expression. The couple settled at the Fredriksdal estate in Helsingborg which Oscar Trapp had acquired in 1898. They also had a plot in Arild at which they had a house built. Gisela Trapp did not allow her marriage to impede her artistic endeavours. She was involved in setting up F\u00f6reningen Svenska konstn\u00e4rinnor (the Swedish female artists\u2019 association) and in the spring of 1911 she submitted work to an exhibition held by the organisation in Stockholm, as well as an exhibition held in Vienna in 1913. It was through Gisela Trapp\u2019s membership of the Sk\u00e5nska konstn\u00e4rslag that she submitted work for the Malm\u00f6 exhibition in 1903 and 1913 as well as the Helsingborg exhibition in 1915. \n\nThe Uppsala author (Helena Nyblom) was one of her summer guests. She belonged to the small group of Nordic Catholics and she was in touch with the Jesuits in Ordrup, north of Copenhagen. She may have provided the inspiration for Gisela Trapp to get some instruction there. In 1913 Gisela Trapp converted to the Catholic faith in Ordrup. She did not make this public knowledge until after the death of her husband, however. \n\nThe Trapps had visited Rome together and prior to her marriage Gisela Trapp had visited several cities on the continent in the company of her sister, Carola, which included seeking out various medieval shrines. Her view of the world became increasingly dominated by her interest in both religious ritual and tradition, as well as by medieval art and architecture. In November 1903 Gisela Trapp submitted several of her works to the Sk\u00e5nska konstn\u00e4rlaget exhibition organised by Malm\u00f6 Museer. One of her paintings portrayed St Dunstan. Following her religious conversion ten years later, her work would increasingly come to include saints as a motif. She later began a lengthy artistic service for the Catholic Church, often producing paintings of various local saints for church buildings which were erected in the first half of the 1900s. \n\nOscar Trapp died in 1916. Two years later Gisela Trapp donated most of Fredriksdal to Helsingborg city. The intention was to set up an open-air museum as well as to create a botanical garden on the site. A few miles south of Fredriksdal was the so-called Henckelska garden, an area of land which was also known as Munkav\u00e5ngen as during the middle-ages it had belonged to Helsingborg\u2019s Dominican monastery. Financial donations from Gisela Trapp\u2019s mother, Ida Henckel, enabled the beginning of construction work in 1926 towards building a Catholic church on the site, on land which Gisela Trapp had donated to the newly-established congregation. The Swedish priest Berndt David Assarsson was a driving force behind the setting up of the congregation, and became head of the new Catholic congregation in Helsingborg in 1927. He became a close friend of Gisela Trapp. In 1928 the new church was inaugurated by Bishop Johannes Erik M\u00fcller, who similarly became a good friend of Gisela Trapp. \n\nDuring the 1920\u20131921 period Gisela Trapp had already had a chapel built on her plot at Arild. This was a miniature version of the medieval chapel which already existed in the village. She decorated the interior with images depicting the medieval legend of Arild. Gisela Trapp also supplied wall paintings for Helsingborg\u2019s St Clement\u2019s church, portraying a heavenly Jerusalem. These paintings vanished, however, during the rebuilding and renovations of the church in the 1960s. A Catholic church was built in Oskarstr\u00f6m, Halland, in 1925 and Gisela Trapp supplied both the altar painting and interior paintings. Much of this has subsequently been painted over during various renovations. \n\nIn 1921 Helsingborgs museum organised an exhibition of Gisela Trapp\u2019s art in which nearly all the pieces were of a religious nature. This was her last major exhibition. Although she continued to paint she ended her membership of all the art associations which she had previously joined. She continued to produce illustrations, for example for books by Augustin Kock and Berndt David Assarsson, as well as for journals such as *Credo* and *Hemmet och helgedomen*, published by the Swedish Catholic Church. Despite the change in motifs, her work continued to reflect her love for animals, just as the earlier humorous elements in her work also remained part of her later output. \n\nGisela Trapp carried on spending intermittent periods living at Fredriksdal in Helsingborg, right up to the outbreak of the Second World War, at which point she went to live in Arild. She also had access to housing through the Catholic congregation in Helsingborg. Gisela Trapp gained public recognition from her home town in 1952 when she was awarded the so-called Helsingborg medal. This was an honorary award which had first been awarded in 1949. She was one of the first women to receive the medal. \n\nGisela Trapp remained active as an artist until her death in 1958. She is buried in the Gamla cemetery in Helsingborg. She continued making donations throughout her life. She donated her entire property at Arild \u2013 comprising two houses and a chapel on an extensive plot \u2013 to the Swedish Catholic Church.",
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