Adolf von Becker

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Adolf von Becker

Adolf von Becker (born August 14, 1831 in Helsingfors , today Helsinki , † August 23, 1909 in Vevey ) was a Finnish painter and art teacher.

Life

Adolf von Becker was the son of the writer and linguist of German-Baltic origin Reinhold von Becker (1788–1858) and von Karolina, née Idestam; his mother tongue was Swedish. He grew up with several siblings in Helsinfors, which became the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1812 as part of the Russian Empire.

He began his studies at the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association, founded in 1848, and studied law at the same time. In 1853 he passed the law exam and became an assistant at the court of appeal in Åbo ( Turku ), but also went on study trips to the area to draw. On the advice of the painter Robert Wilhelm Ekman , who had become a drawing teacher at the drawing school in Åbo in 1845, he enrolled in 1856 to study painting at the Copenhagen Art Academy . In 1858 he worked in Thomas Couture's studio in Paris. In 1858/59 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where Karl Müller was his teacher. In 1859 he went again to Paris , where he worked in the studios of Felix-Joseph Barrias , a student of couture, Gustave Courbet , Ernest Hébert and Léon Coignet and his student Léon Bonnat , among others with his Norwegian friend Olaf Isaachsen . In 1864 he traveled to Spain on a scholarship and copied paintings by old masters in Madrid. He returned to Paris via Rome and rented the studio of the Swedish painter Alfred Wahlberg , whom he also knew from Düsseldorf. In 1868 he returned to Finland to take the position of teacher at the University of Helsingfors for the resigned Magnus von Wright ; In 1879 he was appointed professor.

In 1870 he went on a study trip through Finland with the landscape painter Arvid Liljelund . In 1872 he opened a private drawing school, at which Helene Schjerfbeck , Elin Danielson-Gambogi , Helena Westermarck (1857–1938), Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Ellen Thesleff were his students.

In the 1890s, painters of the younger generation, including Ville Vallgren (1855–1940) and Albert Edelfelt , turned against the conservative view of Adolf von Becker and others. Adolf von Becker left the university in 1892 and returned to Paris. In 1904 he moved his permanent residence to Nice. He died while on vacation in Vevey, Switzerland, at the age of 78.

Works (selection)

  • Arab sheikh , 1863
  • Cat and Rat , 1864
  • Boy on a sleigh , 1870
  • By the stove; Family scene with cat and dog , 1871
  • Mother with children in the living room , 1871
  • Mother feeding her child , 1874
  • Playing child , 1876
  • Girl with a Cat , 1879
  • Mother and son (Äiti ja pojka): Helsinki, Ateneum; Fig .: Wennervirta (1934)
  • The art expert , 1880s
  • Girl with a Doll , 1895
  • Country women , 1895: EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA - Espoon modernin taiteen museo)
  • Southern Landscape , 1897
  • Meditation (Christ Head) , 1899
  • Italian nun , 1901
  • French interior / mother and daughter playing with cats
  • I'm a child (girl with doll)
  • Angler with boat on the river
  • Young mother (in the alcove) (Nuori Äiti); Fig .: Wennervirta (1934)
  • Closing time (Päivällisen jälkeen); Fig .: Wennervirta (1934)

The inventory catalog of the Ateneum Helsinki (1912) lists 10 works:

  • 22. A scholar in the old days (100 × 81 cm), Paris 1862
  • 23 Cat with boys (46 × 58 cm), (1863)
  • 24. Sleeping cat (33 × 41 cm), 1864
  • 25. The village cobbler. French family scene (46 × 38 cm), Ecouen 1868
  • 26. Sewing girl (32 × 24 cm), 1869
  • 28. The bridge at Asnières after the siege of Paris (44 × 65 cm), 1871
  • 29. The introduction of the little ones (49.5 × 61.5 cm)
  • 30. Before the hunt (109 × 90 cm), 1880
  • 34. A batch of piquet (65 × 87 cm), 1869
  • 597. Self-portrait (35 × 27 cm)

literature

  • Zacharias Topelius: En resa i Finland. Efter originalteckningar av finska konstnärer . Tilgmann, Helsingfors 1873; Fig .: Landtfolk från Wasatrakten .
  • Directory of the art collections in the Atheneum Helsingfors . Helsinki 1912 (with a short biography).
  • Johan Jakob Tikkanen: Becker, Adolf von . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 143–144 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Konrad Hahm : Art in Finland . German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1933.
  • Ludvig Wennervirta: Finland's Konsten . Helsinki 1934 (2 fig.).
  • Ludvig Wennervirta: Suomen taidetta 1800-luvulaa . Porvoo 1934.
  • Onni Okkonen: L'art finlandais aux XIXe et XXe siècles . Werner Söderström, Helsinki 1972; New edition: Helsinki 1950.
  • Kuvataiteilijat. Suomen kuvataiteilijoiden henkilöhakemisto . Helsinki 1972.
  • Becker, Adolf von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953.
  • Becker, Adolf von . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 .
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , artist appendix , p. 439.

Web links

Commons : Adolf von Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Adolf von Becker - Bukowskis, in: bukowskis.com
  • Adolf von Becker - Artnet, in: artnet.com
  • Aimo Reitala: Adolf von Becker , in Biografiskt lexikon för Finland , blf.fi
  • Adolf von Becker (Finnish, 1831–1909) - The Athenaeum, in: the-athenaeum.org

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Svenskt biografiskt lexikon: Johan Wilhelm Beckern von . Volume 02 (1920), page 797
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 426
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Adolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsingfors
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1909
Place of death Vevey