Oscar Björck

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Oscar Björck

Gustaf Oscar Björck (born January 15, 1860 in Stockholm ; † December 5, 1929 there ) was a Swedish genre and portrait painter . In 1898 he became a professor at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan Stockholm .

Live and act

Björck studied from 1877 to 1882 with Edvard Perséus and at the Royal Academy in Stockholm. In 1882, together with Peder Severin Krøyer and Michael Ancher, in Skagen ( Jutland ) he founded the artist group of Skagen painters , who dedicated themselves to outdoor painting in the summer months and which the German painter Fritz Stoltenberg also joined in 1884 . The reputation of the Skagen painters contributed to the establishment of the Skagens Museum in 1926 . Between 1882 and 1888 he was an academy scholar and spent study visits to Paris, Munich, Florence and Rome.

In 1889 he became a member of the Royal Academy and was one of its teachers, in 1898 he became a professor and vice-president. Björck was exhibition commissioner several times, including at the Stockholm Art and Industry Exhibition in 1897 for the visual arts department, and for the Swedish contemporary art exhibition in 1926 in the Kronprinzen-Palais in Berlin.

Björck was a member of the Swedish artist association Konstnärsförbundet .

Exhibitions

gallery

  • The boat is launched (1884)

  • Self-Portrait (1903)

  • Woman portrait

  • Parkland

literature

Web links

Commons : Oscar Björck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Singer: General Artist Lexicon. 3. Edition. 1901
  2. ^ Skagens Museum
personal data
SURNAME Björck, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Björck, Gustaf Oscar; Björck, Gustaf Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1929
Place of death Stockholm