Axel Axelson
Carl Axel Hampus Axelson (born October 24, 1854 in Stockholm , Sweden , † April 10, 1892 in Lund , Scania , Sweden) was a Swedish landscape , architecture and interior painter .
Life
Axelson, son of the builder Johan Erik Axelson and his wife Johanna Sofia Petersson, attended the Stockholm Art Academy from 1872 to 1876 . He then went on study trips to Düsseldorf , Munich , Paris , Italy ( Venice , Rome ) and Spain . In 1886 he traveled to North Africa ( Tunis , Morocco ). In connection with the trip to Düsseldorf, he visited areas on the Rhine . He captured the impressions of landscapes, villages, towns and church buildings in watercolors . Among his best works are depictions of the desert with isolated figures. When he was about to go on another trip abroad, he suffered from mental illness. Soon after, he died in Lund Hospital.
literature
- Georg Nordensvan : Axelson, Axel . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 286 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Georg Nordensvan: Svensk konst och svenska konstnärer i nittonde århundradet . 1892, p. 689.
- Georg Nordensvan: Axelson, Axel . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : Armatoler – Bergsund . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1904, Sp. 537 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Gerda Boëthius: C. Axel H. Axelson . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , Volume 2 (1920), p. 513.
Web links
- Alex (Axel) Axelson . Auction results in the portal artnet .de
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. 426
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Axelson, Axel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Axelson, Carl Axel Hampus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish landscape, architecture and interior painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1892 |
| Place of death | Lund , Skåne, Sweden |