Arvid Fredrik Lönnroth

Arvid Fredrik Lönnroth , photo from a historical encyclopedia

Arvid Fredrik Lönnroth (born August 27, 1823 in Gothenburg , Västergötland , Sweden ; † March 13, 1880 in Söderkulla near Borås , Västergötland) was a major in the Swedish army and an animal painter from the Düsseldorf school .

Life

Flyende hästar (Fleeing Horses) , 1877

Lönnroth, son of the Gothenburg artillery major Arvid Lönnroth (1767-1858) and his wife Helena Bredelius, showed great drawing talent as a cadet in the Royal War Academy at Karlberg Castle . The support of the Swedish King Oskar I enabled him to begin studying at the Stockholm Art Academy in 1852 . In addition to his studies, he took private lessons from the history and portrait painter Carl Theodor Staaff (1816–1880).

In 1856, King Oskar I and art lovers from Gothenburg paid for an excursion from Lönnroth to Düsseldorf , at that time a preferred training location for aspiring Scandinavian painters. For example, the later horse painter Gunnar Brynolf Wennerberg from Sweden stayed in Düsseldorf from 1852 to 1855. Until 1859 Lönnroth took private lessons from Wilhelm Camphausen , the leading military and battle painter of the Düsseldorf School, under whose influence he developed into a horse painter. The Swedish Academy of Fine Arts granted him a travel grant in 1862, which enabled him to take another study trip abroad, this time mainly to Berlin and Dresden . Parallel to his training as an academic painter, Lönnroth began his military career; In 1864 he became a captain in the Älfsborgs regiment . In 1865 he married Kristina Elisabet Adelsköld. In 1872 he became a Knight of the Order of the Sword . In 1879 he took leave of the Swedish army with the rank of major.

literature

Arvid Fredrik Lönnroth . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 322 .
Lönnroth, Arvid Fredrik . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 110-111 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Arvid Fredrik Lönnroth - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Arvid Fredrik Lönnroth , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

Arvid Fredrik Lönnroth , Auction Results on the artnet .com portal

Individual evidence

^ Georg Nordensvan : Swedish art of the 19th century . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1904, p. 56.
↑ 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. 435.
↑ Sveriges och Norges stats-kalendar , edition 1874, Stockholm 1873, p. 496 ( Google Books )

personal data
SURNAME	Lönnroth, Arvid Fredrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish officer and animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 27, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gothenburg , Västergötland, Sweden
DATE OF DEATH	March 13, 1880
Place of death	Söderkulla near Borås , Västergötland

[1] Georg Nordensvan : Swedish art of the 19th century . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1904, p. 56.

[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. 435.

[3] Sveriges och Norges stats-kalendar , edition 1874, Stockholm 1873, p. 496 ( Google Books )