Eva Aggerholm

Eva Preetzmann Aggerholm, known artistically as Eva Aggerholm, was trained in the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Since 1908 she lived in Paris where she studied drawing and aesthetics where she met Daniel Vázquez Díaz. In 1911, they married in Copenhagen, and although she trained in drawing and painting, she turned to sculpture around 1910. The couple settled in Spain in 1919.
She rarely exhibited publicly but participated in several National Fine Arts Exhibitions in Spain where she had the opportunity to present a more comprehensive view of her work in the monographic exhibition she jointly did with her husband in 1921 in the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid. This showcased her sober, synthetic, restrained, and reflective style. She dedicated part of her life to the care of her son Rafael. During the last eight years of her life, she suffered from a cruel disease and passed away in 1959.
The sculptor’s birth date has occasionally been erroneously published as 1882. The artist was born in 1879, a fact that researcher Ana Berruguete, author of the doctoral thesis on painter Vázquez Díaz, Eva Aggerholm’s husband, was able to confirm both at the Biblioteksvagten and the Billedkunstnernes Forbund in Denmark, her country of birth.