Alexander Rudbeck

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Alexander Rudbeck , photo from a historical encyclopedia, around 1900

Oskar Thure Gustaf Alexander Fredrik Freiherr von Rudbeck (born January 21, 1829 in Stavby in Husby- Rekarne , today Uppsala , Sweden ; † April 24, 1908 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish genre and history painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Rudbeck was the scion of the Swedish barons Rudbeck, grandson of the Swedish military and politician Thure Gustaf Rudbeck (1714–1786) and one of eleven children of the court marshal and captain Claes Reinhold Rudbeck (1791–1874) and his wife Juliana Sofia Gabriella Oxenstierna af Korsholm och Wasa (1795-1862). After school in Uppsala, he studied painting at the Stockholm Art Academy . From 1853 to 1858 he lived in Düsseldorf . There he studied from 1853 to 1855 at the Royal Prussian Art Academy under the teachers Karl Ferdinand Sohn , Heinrich Mücke and Rudolf Wiegmann . From 1858 to 1860 he lived and studied in Paris . In 1871 he was accepted as Agré in the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. Rudbeck remained single all his life.

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  1. 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. 439