Bengt Nordenberg

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Bengt Nordenberg
Crossing to the church, Dalarna , 1854
Before the Wedding (The Aufgebot) , 1870
The Last Journey , 1870, wood engraving (after the oil painting of the same name) in the magazine Die Gartenlaube , 1871
The Veterans , 1882
Altarpiece of the Transfiguration of Christ in Tingsås Church, flanked by two grisaille depicting Moses and John the Baptist, 1885

Bengt Nordenberg , also Benedict Nordenberg (born April 22, 1822 in Jämshög , Blekinge , † December 18, 1902 in Düsseldorf ), was a Swedish genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Nordenberg was born in 1822 as the son of the tenant Per Jönsson Nord (1785-1854) and his wife Sissa Bengtsdotter in the southern Swedish town of Jämshög. Although the large family was poor, Nordenberg had nine siblings, his father sent him to school in Karlshamn . Nordenberg, who liked to read and started drawing at an early age, had the opportunity at the age of twelve to do an apprenticeship with the painter Brodin in Sölvesborg . At the age of 19 he became his journeyman. At the age of 21 he enrolled at the Stockholm Art Academy , but for lack of money he had to return home and go to work. In 1846 he began again to study painting at the Stockholm Academy . His first paintings, exhibited soon after, were awarded five silver medals.

In 1851 he traveled to Düsseldorf , where he arrived in October to continue studying at the local art academy . Last year, Carl d'Unker was the first Swede to register there. Nordenberg studied at the Düsseldorf Academy with Theodor Hildebrandt until around 1854 , interrupted by short trips to Sweden. Another Swedish student of Hildebrandt's during this time was Kilian Zoll , with whom Nordenberg was friends. Even Marcus Larson studied at this time in Dusseldorf. Nordenberg received further impulses from his work in the studio of the freelance Norwegian genre painter Adolph Tidemand , who became his artistic role model. The latter had already begun to depict romantic and ethnographic motifs from Scandinavian folk life at the end of the 1830s . Together with Hans Fredrik Gude , Nordenberg's "Meister" has been considered an outstanding painter of Norwegian national romanticism since the 1840s .

In 1855, Nordenberg married the Swede Nanny Maria Charlotta Sutthof (1831–1905) in Lekaryd . In 1856, Nordenberg received a travel grant from the Swedish government, which enabled him to study with Thomas Couture in Paris for a year and a half . After a brief return to the Rhine, he traveled to Rome in the autumn of 1858 . But he soon returned to Düsseldorf, where he lived as a freelance painter until his death in 1902.

From 1856 to 1889 he was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . Nordenberg gave private lessons from 1856 to the Swede Peter Eskilsson (1820–1872), from 1877 to the Swede Augusta Jensen (1858–1936) and from 1873 to his nephew Henrik Nordenberg (1857–1928), who like himself worked as a freelance painter until his death lived in Düsseldorf. Nordenberg was honored with medals in Stockholm (1845, 1847 and 1848), Lyon (1866) and London (1879). It received a special mention at the Salon de Paris in 1864, as well as at the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 . In 1872 he was awarded the Wasa Order. Portraits of Nordenberg were made in 1859 by Wilhelmina Lagerholm and in 1886 by Karl Barthold Lindahl , husband of his daughter Elna.

Work (selection)

The main focus of Nordenberg's work was genre painting . His preferred subject was the life of the rural population in the Swedish provinces of Blekinge , Dalarna and Schonen , which he depicted using the techniques and iconography of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Nordenberg also created portraits and illustrations, as well as sacred pictures, for example for the churches of Asarum, Gårdsby, Jällundtofta, Kungsbacka, Kyrkhult, Öljehults, Pjätteryd, Stenbrohult, Tingsås and Unnaryd.

  • House devotions of the peasants in Blekinge , 1852
  • Crossing to the church, Dalarna (Kyrkrodd, Dalarna) , 1854
  • Last Supper in a (Swedish) country church , 1856
  • Delivery of tithe in Skåne (Tiondemöte i skåne) , 1865
  • Before the Wedding (The Aufgebot) , 1870
  • Wedding in Värend , 1873
  • Outdoor painter (Frilufts Målaren) , 1881
  • The Veterans , 1882
  • Sunday morning in Blekinge , 1883
  • Rescue after the shipwreck (Sjöräddning av skeppsbrutna) , 1883
  • Christ's Transfiguration , altarpiece, 1885

literature

  • Nordenberg, Bengt. In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 396 (digitized retrobibliothek.de ).
  • Georg Nordensvan: Nordenberg. 1. Bengt . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 19 : Mykenai-Norrpada . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 1243-1244 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Georg Nordensvan : Bengt Nordenberg . In: Svensk konst och svenska konstnärer i nittonde århundradet . Ny, Grundligt omarbetad upplaga - New, thoroughly revised edition. tape 1 : I. Från Gustav III till Karl XV . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1925, p. 527–531 (Swedish, runeberg.org - with photo of the artist on p. 530).
  • Sven Christer Swahn: Bengt Nordenberg 1822–1902. Vekerum, 1975, ISBN 91-86787-10-1 (Swedish).
  • Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its International Radiance 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1: pp. 183, 184, 279, 344, 363, 371, 430, 433, 437; Volume 2: p. 420.

Web links

Commons : Bengt Nordenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Bengt Nordenberg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 176
  2. ↑ Article Bengt Nordenberg in the portal historiesajten.se , accessed on September 10, 2013 (Swedish).
  3. ^ Friedrich Müller, Karl Klunzinger, Adolf Seubert : The artists of all times and peoples. Third volume, M – Z, published by Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1864, p. 189 ( books.google.de ).
  4. ^ Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf . Verlag der Buddeus'schen Buch und Kunsthandlung ( Eduard Schulte ), Düsseldorf 1856, p. 324 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ↑ Nordenberg Nanny at http://carl.kulturen.com , accessed June 30, 2018.
  6. ↑ A portrait of Nanny was painted by Nordenberg's friend, Kilian Zoll , in 1856 ( illustration ).
  7. ↑ His last address in Düsseldorf was the house at Ehrenstrasse 13 in the Pempelfort district . - See: Large country address book or commercial and trade address books for the individual states and Provinces of the German Empire. Berenberg, Hannover 1901, p. 1511.
  8. ^ Karl Barthold Lindahl: Konstnären Bengt Nordenberg , website of the Art Museum Gothenburg in the portal emp-web-34.zetcom.ch .
  9. ↑ Description in: Morgenblatt für educated readers. No. 33 of August 15, 1852, p. 789, ( books.google.de ).
  10. ↑ Frilufts Målaren , gallery in the parashutov.livejournal.com portal , accessed on January 11, 2015
  11. ↑ Figure in: H. Arnold Barton: Sweden and Visions of Norway. Politics and Culture 1814-1905. Southern Illinois University, 2003, ISBN 0-8093-2441-5 , ( books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Nordenberg, Bengt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nordenberg, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Jämshög , Blekinge
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1902
Place of death Dusseldorf