Axel Tallberg

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Axel Tallberg , self-portrait

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

Axel Tallberg , etching by Carl Larsson , 1904
Head study , 1907

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 .

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Web links

Commons : Axel Tallberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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 )
personal data
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