Arvid Liljelund
Emanuel Arvid Liljelund (born January 20, 1844 in Uusikaupunki (Nystad), Grand Duchy of Finland , † July 21, 1899 ibid) was a Finnish-Swedish genre , portrait and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Liljelund began his artistic training at the drawing schools of the Finnish Art Association, 1863/64 in Turku , 1864/65 in Helsinki under Robert Wilhelm Ekman . He then went - thanks to his patron Fredrik Cygnaeus (1807–1881) with a grant from the Finnish Art Association - to Düsseldorf , where he studied from 1866 to 1869 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein his teachers. From 1870 he took part in exhibitions. From 1869 to the mid-1870s he worked as a teacher at the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association in Helsinki, and from 1891 to 1899 as a teacher and director of the drawing school of the Art Friends of Vyborg .
From 1875 to 1877 he lived again in Düsseldorf. After a time in Paris had been, he went back in 1878 to Dusseldorf, where he joined the folklore - folklore turned genre painting and from interior pictures of the Swiss painter Benjamin Vautier was inspired. This year, Liljelund's main work, buying up folk costumes in Säkylä , falls . Until 1896 he made frequent trips to the Rhine, as well as to Paris and Munich .
Within Finland, Liljelund traveled to the coasts of Ostrobothnia and the archipelago , where he painted landscapes that became popular postcard motifs. As a portrait painter he was mainly active; Among other things, a portrait of the painter Ferdinand von Wright has been preserved . The Imperial Art Academy St. Petersburg appointed him an honorary member.
Works (selection)
Liljelund's oeuvre includes around 600 pictures: 285 portraits, 170 genre pictures, 82 landscapes, still lifes and 22 altar pictures, as well as several sketches and studies.
- Kilttipiika , 1876
- Kansallispukujen osto Säkylässä (Buying Folk Costumes in Säkylä) , 1878, Ateneum , Helsinki
- Festklädd flicka (Girl in Festive Clothes) , 1881
- Lähtö Pariisista (Farewell to Montmartre) , 1884
- Sisäkuva Taivassalon kirkosta , around 1884
literature
- Liljelund, Emanuel Arvid . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 16 : Lee – Luvua . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1912, Sp. 505 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Liljelund, Arvid . Biography in the Biografiskt lexikon for Finland
- Arvid Liljelund . Biography in the portal lahteilla.fi
- Arvid Liljelund . Auction results in the portal artnet .com
Individual evidence
- ^ Wend von Kalnein : The influence of Düsseldorf on painting outside Germany . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 201.
- ↑ 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liljelund, Arvid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Liljelund, Emanuel Arvid (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish-Swedish genre, portrait and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uusikaupunki (Nystad), Grand Duchy of Finland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1899 |
| Place of death | Uusikaupunki (Nystad), Grand Duchy of Finland |