August Jernberg

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August Jernberg, photo by Arnold Overbeck , Gebr. G. & A. Overbeck in Düsseldorf
August Jernberg

August Jernberg (born September 16, 1826 in Gävle , † June 22, 1896 in Düsseldorf ) was a Swedish painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Jernberg was initially a student of the Kungliga Konsthögskolan Stockholm and first went to Paris in 1847 , where he studied with Thomas Couture , before moving to Düsseldorf in 1851 , where he continued his education. There he took up residence at 66 Schadowstrasse and was accepted as a member of the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1855 until his death he was also a member of the artists' association Malkasten . He lived in Düsseldorf at 7 Rosenstrasse from 1865, had his studio on Jägerhofstrasse , then became the owner of Rosenstrasse 5, and from 1889 he lived at Duisburger Strasse 62. His son Olof Jernberg , born in Düsseldorf in 1855 , grew up in the environment of the painting school , joined the academy at the age of 15, and also became a painter.

Works (selection)

The visitors before Rembrandt's Night Watch in Amsterdam , 1885

He began with some historical genre pictures , but soon turned, with greater luck, to depicting village stories, which he treated with drastic characteristics and a lot of humor. The best include:

  • The misfortune in the painter's studio ,
  • The Persuasion (1864),
  • The clarinetist ,
  • The new and the broken pipe ,
  • The first course to school ,
  • Painter on a study trip (1869),
  • The visitors before Rembrandt's Night Watch in Amsterdam , 1885
  • The bear at the fair ,
  • The grandfather as a child minder and
  • The market square in Düsseldorf.
  • Portrait of Carl Jungheim

He was also important as a still life painter . His son Olof Jernberg (1855-1935) was known as a landscape painter of cliffs and coasts.

literature

Web links

Commons : August Jernberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Civil status of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, Born. The 23., Aug. Andreas, S. of the history painter Aug. Jernberg, Schadowstr. , in Düsseldorfer Journal and Kreisblatt (No. 124), dated May 27, 1855
  2. ↑ Schadowstrasse 66, Jerenberg, Maler , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf, 1859, p. 49
  3. ↑ Jernberg, Aug., Maler, Rosenstrasse 7 , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf, 1865, p. 69
  4. ↑ Rosenstrasse 5, E Jernberg, painter , in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1886, p. 106
  5. ^ August Jernberg in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1890
  6. ↑ August Jernberg. Portrait of C. Jungheim , in the catalog for the anniversary exhibition of the Malkasten Artists' Association in 1898

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personal data
SURNAME Jernberg, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Gävle
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1896
Place of death Dusseldorf