Anton Bergh (painter)
Anton Mathias Bergh (born March 28, 1828 in Rødtangen, Hurum , Viken , Norway ; † July 22, 1907 in Christiania , Norway) was a Norwegian officer and engineer and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School . He also worked as an art and drawing teacher and as an author of textbooks .
Life
Bergh, a son of the superintendent Mathias Munch Bergh (1781–1832) and his wife Antonette Elisabeth Schnitler (1792–1861), first attended a military school as a 21-year-old and in 1850 went to the Royal Painting School in Christiania. In the same year he moved to Düsseldorf at the suggestion of Johan Fredrik Eckersberg and took private lessons from the Norwegian landscape painter Hans Fredrik Gude until 1851 . At the same time he was a member of the Düsseldorf artist association Malkasten .
After this art education he turned back to the military and applied for admission to the Krigsskolen , where he graduated in 1855 after completing military and technical training. Presumably through connections of his brother Christian Vilhelm Bergh (1814–1873), who had been responsible for road and path construction in the Norwegian Ministry of the Interior since 1852 , Bergh received tasks in the field of railway construction in the course of his further professional career . From 1859 to 1862 he directed construction work for the construction of the Kongsvingerbanen , the railway line from Lillestrøm to Kongsvinger . He married Maren Oline Krag (1834–1891), who in 1861 gave birth to their daughter Elisabeth Mathea, later an illustrator and painter, and in 1867 to their son Olaf. In 1863 he was provincial engineer (amtsingeniør) of Bruskerud with his office in Drammen , where he took up his landscape painting again in 1867, parallel to a post as Formann (1867-1870), and was also elected deputy chairman of the local art association. In 1867 the Norwegian armed forces promoted him to captain (kaptein) .
In 1870 he resigned from his post in Drammen and moved to Christiania. From 1870 to 1871 he worked there as a teacher at the Royal School of Painting. In 1871 he was made a Knight of the Order of Saint Olav . In the same year he was appointed head of the Norwegian hunter corps . In 1874 he got a job in the administration of the main train station in Christiania . In 1875 he became a drawing teacher at the State Women's College (Statens Kvinnlige Industriskole) . In 1876 the Norwegian army made him chief of the 3rd company of the Christiania battalion (Kristiania Bataljon) . Most recently he held the rank of lieutenant colonel . In 1876 and in the 1880s he worked as a drawing teacher at the Krigsskolen , from 1876 to 1901 at the Technical College Christiania (Christiania tekniske Skole, Den tekniske Skole) , where Edvard Munch was one of his students, and from 1882 to 1899 at a technical evening school (tekniske aftenskole) in fatherland . Between 1872 and 1881 he appeared as an author through the publication of textbooks, in particular on the subjects of perspective , techniques of oil painting and freehand drawing .
Works
Landscape painting
- Fjord motif , sold to Oskar II.
- Ensom i reports , sold to Henrik Ibsen
- Landskap med to soldater , 1871, National Museum Oslo
- High mountain picture , exhibited in the Centennial Exhibition , Philadelphia 1876, then in the Bergen Art Museum
Textbooks
- Lærebog i Perspective . Christiania, 1872
- Kort Oversigt over Oliemaleriet and dets Almindelige Teknik . Christiania, 1874
- Om Undervisning i den elementære Frihaandstegning . Christiania, 1875
- Plangeometrisk construction . Christiania, 1875
- Vægtavler til Anton Berghs elementære Frihaandstegning . Christiania, 1877
- Geometrical formers and plangeometric constructions . Christiania, 1880
- Frihaandstegning som Skolefag . Christiania, 1881
literature
- Carl Wille Schnitler : Bergh, Anton Mathias . 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. 401 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Norsk biografisk leksikon , Volume 1 (1923), p. 222 f.
- Inge Reed Thomsen: Anton Bergh . In: Norsk Kunstnerleksikon (2013)
Web links
- Einar Sørensen: Bergh, Anton , biography on the historieboka.no portal (Norwegian)
- Anton Bergh , Auction Results on artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erik Morstad: Edvard Munch: Formative år 1874-1892. Norske and franske impulsers . Dissertation, University of Oslo, Oslo 2016, p. 82 ( PDF )
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 146
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Sonja Hagemann: Lisbeth Berg . In: Norsk Kunstnerleksikon (2013)
- ^ Anton Mathias Bergh , genealogical data sheet in the portal verstraat.net , accessed on May 1, 2018
- ↑ Erik Mørstad, p. 82 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergh, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bergh, Anton Mathias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian officer and engineer, landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rødtangen, Hurum , Viken , Norway |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1907 |
| Place of death | Christiania , Norway |