Dagny Juel

Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska (8 June 1867 – 5 June 1901) was a Norwegian writer, famous for her liaisons with various prominent artists, and for the dramatic circumstances of her death. She was the model for quite a few of Edvard Munch's paintings. She had relationships with Munch and briefly with August Strindberg. In 1893, she married the Polish writer Stanisław Przybyszewski. Together they had two children. She was shot in a hotel room in Tbilisi in 1901, three days before her thirty-fourth birthday.

Family background

Dagny was born in Kongsvinger, Norway, the second of four daughters of Doctor Hans Lemmich Juell and his wife Mindy (née Blehr). As a young woman Dagny changed the spelling of her name from 'Juell' to 'Juel'. The oldest sister, Gudrun, was beautiful and self-confident; Dagny was second born; third-born was a son, Hans Lemmich, who only lived one year; then came Astrid who was something of an invalid, who remained unmarried and stayed with her mother; and finally there was Ragnhild, who was closest to Dagny, and in time became a well-known opera singer.

Dagny

Dagny is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Geography

The river Aubetin flows northwestward through the commune.

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Dagny (name)

Dagny is a feminine given name of Scandinavian and especially Norwegian origin. Alternate forms include Dagna, Dagne and the Latvian form Dagnija.

It is derived from the combination of the Old Norse words "dagr" - "day" and "ný" "new." While appearing in Norse mythology it had virtually fallen out of use for centuries, and was revived at the second half of the 19th century, which is attributed to a character of that name in Henrik Ibsen’s 1857 play "The Vikings of Helgeland" or more likely as a result of Dagny, a Scandinavian Women's magazine founded in 1886. In any case, it was at its most common in Scandinavia in the early to mid 20th century.

Notable people with the name include:

Dagny (film)

Dagny is a 1977 Norwegian-Polish documentary film directed by Haakon Sandøy. It is narrated by, among others, Lise Fjeldstad, Daniel Olbrychski, Per Oscarsson and Nils Ole Oftebro. The subject of the film is the Norwegian writer Dagny Juel (Fjeldstad), and her relationship to such men as Stanisław Przybyszewski (Olbrychski), Edvard Munch (Oftebro) and August Strindberg (Oscarsson).

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