Maja Synnergren
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| image = Maja Synnergren.jpg
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| birth_date = 30 September 1891
| birth_name = Ester Maria Synnergren
| birth_place = Sundvall
| death_date = 8 February 1950
| death_place = Stockholm
| nationality = Swedish
| known_for = Illustration and design
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Ester Maria "Maja" Synnergren ({{née|Ekholm}}; 30 September 1891 – 8 February 1950) was a Swedish painter, drawing teacher, and draftsman. She illustrated several fairy-tale books.
Life and work
Synnergren was born on 30 September 1891, in the town of Sundsvall. She was the daughter of businessman Rudolf Ekholm and Augusta Jernberg and married the manager Bertil Synnergren in 1917. She studied at the Konstfack in Stockholm from 1910 to 1913. She made a name for herself as a fairy tale illustrator and children's portrait-maker. In 1928, she published the picture book Herrskapstroll, which in its layout is connected to Elsa Beskow's children's books. The many fairy-tale books she illustrated include Brita Ellström's Lasse tänker flyga jämte andra små sagor, Eugenie Beskow's Sjuttisjuornas förbund, Maja Jäderin-Hagfors En bok om en pojke, en hund och en aktersnurra, and Folkskolans barntidnings jubileumssagor. She also drew Christmas cards and collaborated in Christmas publications and other magazines as an illustrator.Svenskt konstnärslexikon Vol. V, p. 361, Allhems Förlag, Malmö, 1967. She died on 8 February 1950, in Stockholm at the age of 59.
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Category:20th-century Swedish painters
Category:20th-century Swedish women painters
Category:Swedish fantasy artists
Category:Swedish women educators
Category:Illustrators of fairy tales
Category:20th-century Swedish illustrators
Category:Swedish women illustrators
Category:People from Sundsvall
Category:Artists from Västernorrland County
Category:Swedish children's book illustrators
Category:Swedish women children's book illustrators
Category:Swedish magazine illustrators
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