Nobel Diploma rear interior

Swedish Artists Lexicon entry on painter of Chadwick's Nobel diploma
(Svenska Konstnarslexicon: translation from Swedish)

Örtenblad , Elsa Maria, born 1/23/1903 in Umeå. Art teacher, craftsman; painter, drawer. Parents: Department Manager Veit Thorsten Örtenblad and Anna Lovisa Hellström; married in1934 to the Architect SAR Ärland Noreen. After studies at the Technical School in Stockholm she graduated in 1925 as an Art teacher and the same year she completed studies in advertising as well as in book- craftsmanship. She has done study trips to Germany in 1934, Italy in 1934-37 and 1952, and Greece in 1951. She worked 1924-43 freelance and as an associate with the firm Beck & Son {diploma producers}. (Compositions to book bindery which were displayed at a Stockholm exhibit in 1930.) She has painted a lot of Nobel addresses {diplomas} for the Royal Scientific Academy 1925-40 and during the 60's also made frames for stained glass church windows around Sweden… and also made some frames for copper relieves in different churches

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Together with Chadwick's Nobel Prize medal, the Nobel presentation book and Chadwick portrait photo; the accompanying archive of related books and research dossiers; and the accompanying group of other Nobel Prize Medals struck by Royal Swedish Mint, the Chadwick Nobel package constitutes a ready-made museum exhibit.