Axel Nordgren
Axel Wilhelm Nordgren (born December 5, 1828 in Stockholm , † February 12, 1888 in Düsseldorf ) was a Swedish-German portrait and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Nordgren was the son of the portrait painter Carl Vilhelm Nordgren (1804-1857) and Johanna Amalia Rantell. After studying at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm , Nordgren traveled to Düsseldorf on a scholarship from the Swedish Crown Prince Karl , where he was enrolled at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf from 1851 . There he was taught by Andreas Achenbach and, above all, the Norwegian landscape painter Hans Fredrik Gude . In 1857 he married Anna Mariane Natalie Lochen (1832–1921). Nordgren was close friends with the Norwegian painter Morten Müller , with whom he - often accompanied by Gude - went on study trips to Norway in the summer months. He also traveled to Finland. From 1857 until his death in 1888, Nordgren was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . In Düsseldorf, where he lived at the end of his life at Rosenstrasse 50 in the Pempelfort district, Nordgren worked as a freelance painter. In 1871 he stayed in the Netherlands. In the 1870s he and Gustaf Rydberg traveled to the coast of Skåne (southern Sweden). Arvid Ahlberg was one of his private students . Nordgren received medals at art exhibitions in Lyon (1870) and Vienna (1873).
Works (selection)
Nordgren almost exclusively painted landscapes, often rough, barren coastal and mountain landscapes in a melancholy atmosphere, often in moonlight.
- Landscape in Westphalia , 1856, Vänerborgs Museum
- Portrait of Queen Joséphine of Sweden and Norway , around 1858
- Nordic Coastal Landscape , 1866, National Museum of Sweden
- Coastal Landscapes , 1868, Gothenburg Museum
- Autumn Landscape , 1870, National Museum of Sweden
- Nordic landscape with reindeer , around 1870, Museum Kunstpalast
- Fishing village in the moonlight , before 1879
- Coastal Landscape , Swedish National Museum
- Winter twilight , New Masters Gallery , Dresden
literature
- Axel Nordgren . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 516 .
- Brita Linde: Axel W. Nordgren . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , 1990/1991, volume 27, p. 345
- Axel Nordgren (2nd Axel N.) . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 19 : Mykenai-Norrpada . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 1285-1286 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Axel Nordgren . Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Axel Wilhelm Nordgren . Auction results in the portal artnet.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Theimann: The student lists the landscape explanation Assen 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, studies and stay 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. 437
- ↑ Axel Nordgren . In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf 1889 ; accessed on February 10, 2016
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 2, p. 342 (Catalog No. 283)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nordgren, Axel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nordgren, Axel Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish-German portrait and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1888 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |