Adolf Fredrik Björlin
Adolf Fredrik Björlin (born February 24, 1837 in Gräsmark , Värmland , Sweden ; † after 1913 ) was a Swedish painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Björlin was the second eldest of three sons of the ironworks manager Johan Petter Björlin (1797-1856) and his wife Kjerstin Burman (1797-1845). After finishing school he went to England in 1857 , where he studied painting for five years. The Swedish landscape painter Marcus Larson was among his circle of friends . In the mid-1860s he moved to Germany and toured the art centers of Düsseldorf , Munich and Dresden , among others . In Düsseldorf he enrolled at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1866 . In the elementary class of the Düsseldorf Academy he was a student of Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein . In 1879 he returned to Sweden and lived there in different places, around 1913 - suffering from glaucoma - in Gothenburg .
literature
- Björlin, Adolf Fredrik . In: Carl Emanuel Nygren: Biografiska anteckningar ofver lärjungar intagna vid Karlstads Högre Allg. Läroverk. Åren 1850-63 . Forest. Zachrissons Boktryckeri, Göteborg 1913, p. 13 ( PDF ).
Web links
- Adolf Fredrik Björlin , photo in the wermlandsbilder.se portal(Karlstads Kommunarkiv)
- Adolf Fredrik Björlin , photo by Franz Neumayer , Munich 1867
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
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| SURNAME | Björlin, Adolf Fredrik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gräsmark , Varmland , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1913 |