Classically trained at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and the Académie Colarossi in Paris, Esther Kjerner did not receive critical recognition for her artwork until the later years of her life. However, in the years after her death, she is celebrated for her vibrant still lifes and idyllic landscapes and acknowledged as a leading Swedish painter of the early 20th century.
Esther Kjerner was born on 29 October 1873 in Stockholm, one of seven children of Karl Kjerner, a doctor, and Emelie Constance (neé Magnell). She was educated at the Royal Swedish Academy of Art, before travelling to study in Rome, Brittany and Paris, where she studied at the Académie Colarossi. It was not until 1941, when Esther Kjerner was
67 years old, that she had her first solo exhibition, held by the art critic and dealer Gösta Stenman. She died on 3 October 1952.
Her work is represented in the collections of the Nationalmuseum (Stockholm), Mälmo Museum, the Prins Eugen Waldermarsudde Museum (Östersund), Norrköping, Kalmar and Eskilstuna Museums.
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