About Marianne

Born Marianne Hederström in Gällivare Lappland , brought up in Kiruna and Skellefteå in Sweden.

The girl from the Far North who became photographer, author, world citizen and connoisseur of the art of living."The gretaest art is the art of living!" This is the description the American author Anaïs Nin gave of her friend Marianne Greenwood: "Marianne is the eternal vagabond. She is restless in big cities and she is always dreaming of far away places. She got a rare gift for friendship, not only for natives whose language she does not speak, but all who she temporarily pays visits to around the world. People just love to receive her. She is a wonderful storyteller. Listeners will be taken as by the wind to and fro - and will experience colours, smells and adventure - even without seeing the rich photographic material from alla her travels. The greatest art is the art of living, says Marianne"

Just before the end of the War Marianne moved to Stockholm and the art school of design. After various jobs one as draftsman she moved to Switzerland and the hotel school in Lausanne. After a Paris sejour she went to the Mediterranean city of Antibes where she lived seven years in the Musée Picasso. Here she became the "in-house photographer" for the collection of the museum but she also portrayed Picasso and his family and visting friends as Matisse, Chagall, Miró och Leger.

At this time she also began a long friendship and co-operation with Evert Taube - the troubadour today regarded as a national poet of Sweden. He stayed for long period in Antibes. Together they roamed the Camarque in Southern France. During several decades she lived together with the ingenous people in the Americas, the Pacific Islands, in Papua New Guinea and parts of Asia.

Marianne has contributed with her texts and photos in books and magazines in France, Germany, the United States, Sweden and other countries. Her own books has been published in several countries.

Marianne has received the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Wingsquest Foundation in New York.

Marianne enjoyed the last years of her life in her beloved Antibes, France.

Published

Marianne Hederström Greenwood is with her portrait gallery represented in the Etnographical Museum in Stockholm with 30.000 pictures some of which have been shown in connection to the UN travelling exihibitions Ingenous People (1995) and Children of the World (1996)

Musée Picasso Antibes. Great collection of photographical pictures of the museum collection and of Pablo Picasso and his family. Separate exihibitions 1997 and 1998 Separate exhibition of portraits in Antibes: Gallerie La Cyclades 1997 and TransArt Café 2006.

Archive of her own with pictures of Evert Taube. Also photos of other friends and artist such as Henry Miller, Anais Nin and Fritz Lang.

About Marianne

Television

Radio

Documentary film about Marianne

Books and other publications by Marianne

News

Catch the Moment

The documentary film about Marianne had its world premiere screening at the Gothenburg Film Festival 2008.

The film was broadcast on Swedish public television six times 2008-2010.It was also broadcast on national television in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland.

The film (subtitles in English and French) is available on DVD from www.felixfilm.se

2005 Lifetime Achievement Award

WINGS - the trust for women explorers - awarded Marianne Hederström Greenwood its Women of Discovery Award for Lifetime Achievement 2005. The awards event took place at the National Arts Club in New York on March 2. See photo of Marianne together with the four other awardees.
More information at www.wingsworldquest.org

A luncheon honoring Marianne was also given by the Consulate General of Sweden at the residence of the Ambassador Kjell Annerling. On March 3 the NY Hall of Science hosted a special day for Marianne and the other winners to meet school children. There was also an exihibition of Marianne's photographical collection at the National Arts Club . A Photographic Retrospective 1943-1990.

During this week in New York Marianne was also a guest at television show broadcast on CNN Headline News November 11. She was also guest on the Leonard Lopate Show a live radio show on WNYC broadcast on the National Public Radio network. Listen to the program on the web. In New York Marianne was also interviewed for TV4 - the commercial television network in Sweden.

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A successful photographic exhibition opened at the Ethnographical Museum in Stockholm January 28 2006. In October it moved to Luleå in Northern Sweden. In December 2006 it was exhibited in Gällivare (Marianne's place of birth) Laponia also in Northern Sweden.

Marianne's pictures has also be on exhibition in April 2006 in Forth Worth (Texas). A photograhic exhibition including seminars (France) in September 2006 at the gallery Transart café in Antibes.

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Marianne died February 3rd 2006 in Antibes, France and was buried in Stockholm.