Axel Tallberg
Axel Tallberg (born September 23, 1860 in Gävle , Gästrikland , Sweden ; † January 8, 1928 in Solna , Uppland , Sweden) was a Swedish painter and graphic artist who was best known as an etcher . As a teacher at the Stockholm Art Academy , he shaped a subsequent generation of Swedish engravers from 1895 to 1926 .
Life
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Tallberg, son of the metalworker Carl Erik Tallberg and his wife Kristina Johansson, studied painting at the Stockholm Art Academy from 1878 to 1882. Then he switched to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was a student of the engraver Carl Ernst Forberg from 1883 to 1884 . He also trained in depicting landscapes and watercolors at the Düsseldorf Academy. After study trips to Germany , Italy , France , Spain and North Africa , he went to England , where he settled in Burnham ( Buckinghamshire ) and Windsor ( Berkshire ) near London from 1889 to 1895, where he belonged to a colony of Swedish engravers.
After he returned to Sweden, he began to give etching courses at the Stockholm Art Academy in 1895, which were institutionalized there as a separate subject in 1909. In 1919 he was awarded the title of professor. His students included Caleb Althin (1866–1919), Edvard Berggren (1876–1961), Knut Borgh (1867–1946), Gabriel Burmeister (1886–1946), Erik Ekroth , Albert Engström (1869–1940), Carl Johan Forsberg (1868–1938), Axel Fridell , Greta Gerell (1898–1982), Charles Lachs (1879–1972), Erik Johannes Lindkvist (1889–1955), Albert Olson Mesch (1870–1945), Gottfrid Olsson (1890–1979) , Oscar Parviainen (1880–1938) and Esther Salmson (1877–1966). A well-known Swedish artist whom he was able to influence through his work was the painter Carl Larsson . From 1895 Tallberg published the magazine Förgät-mig-ej (forget-me-not). In 1900 he married Greta Katarina Kristina Santesson (* 1879). She gave birth to their daughter Lizzie Tallberg (1903–1960), who became a visual artist and writer. As a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland , both in London, he maintained his contacts in Great Britain. From 1902 he acted as the Swedish correspondent for the British art and culture magazine The Studio .
literature
- Johan Nordling: Axel Tallberg and Hans etsarskola. In: Idun. No. 42, 1905, p. 529.
- Tallberg, Axel . 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. 584-585 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Tallberg, Axel . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 28 : Syrten-vikarna – Tidsbestämning . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1919, Sp. 340-341 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Tallberg, Axel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 417 .
Web links
- Axel Tallberg , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Axel Tallberg , data sheet in the portal collektion.nationalmuseum.se ( Swedish National Museum )
- Tallberg , biography of Axel Tallberg, his wife and daughter in the runnman.se portal
- Axel Tallberg , catalog raisonné in the ffgrafiskkonst.se portal(Föreningen för Grafisk Konst)
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. 441.
- ↑ Arthur M. Hind : A History of Engraving & Etching From the 15th Century to the Year 1914 . Dover Publications / Courier Corporation, New York 1963, ISBN 978-0-486-20954-8 , p. 338 ( Google Books )
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SURNAME | Tallberg, Axel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter and printmaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1860 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gävle , Gästrikland, Sweden |
DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1928 |
Place of death | Solna , Uppland, Sweden |