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 Foundation presentation book and the Chadwick portrait photo; the accompanying archive of related books and research dossiers; and the accompanying group of other Nobel Prize objects made by the Royal Swedish Mint, etc.; the Chadwick Nobel Prize Archive constitutes a ready-made museum exhibit.

Comments on Chadwick's Nobel Diploma, by Dr. Burton Feldman, author of The Nobel Prize: a History of Genius, Controversey, and Prestige (Arcade, 2000) , in a letter to J. Schramek, 10 June 2001

"The portfolio you sent me of Chadwick's Nobel diploma is simply exquisite. Thanks very much for sending it. I have seen many reproductions of the diplomas, but your packet is as close as I have ever come to handling one. And it's an eye opener. They can stand by themselves for beauty, apart from the Nobel link. The tooling is remarkable. Each diploma obviously must be done by hand - I can't believe any machine could produce such a work of art. And they are so classically simple and elegant."

An Interview about Sir James Chadwick's Nobel Prize group, with J. Schramek, was shown on Swedish Television, during (the intermission of) the nationwide telecast of the Nobel Prize ceremonies, on 10 December 2006.