Alfred Thörne

Alfred Thörne , photo from a historical encyclopedia

Sven Alfred Thörne (born April 24, 1850 in Horn , Östergötland , Sweden , † March 15, 1916 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish landscape , genre and portrait painter .

Life

Thörne studied painting at the Stockholm Art Academy , where he was a student of Per Daniel Holm . In 1880 he received a royal medal for the painting Sommarmorgon (Summer Morning) . In 1881 he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts as agré . With a travel grant that he received in 1884, he traveled through Germany , Belgium , France and Italy . Between 1884 and 1886 he stayed in Düsseldorf to get to know the painting of the Düsseldorf School . He also stayed in Munich . In Sweden he mainly worked as a landscape painter, he also painted genre motifs and portraits. He also earned his living as an art teacher.

Works (selection)

Insjölandskap med gård (Inland Landscape with a Farm) , 1886

Spring in the Country , 1888

Sommarmorgon (summer morning) , 1880
Insjölandskap med gård (Inland Landscape with a Farm) , 1886
Vårmorgon (Spring in the Country) , 1888, National Museum of Sweden

literature

Thörne, Sven Alfred . In: Nordisk familjebok , Volume 28 (1919), Col. 1237
Thieme-Becker , Volume XXXIII (1939), p. 44
Thörne, Alfred (Thörne, Sven Alfred) . In: Artists of the World: Bio-bibliographical Index A-Z . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-23919-X , Volume 9, p. 686

Web links

Commons : Alfred Thörne - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Alfred Thörne , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

Alfred Thörne , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Alfred Thörne , catalog raisonné in the portal the-athenaeum.org

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 441

personal data
SURNAME	Thörne, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thörne, Sven Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish landscape, genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Horn , Östergötland , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 1916
Place of death	Stockholm

[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. 441