Bruno Liljefors
Bruno Andreas Liljefors (born May 14, 1860 in Uppsala , † December 18, 1939 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish painter who was mainly known for his realistic depictions of animals .
Life
Bruno Liljefors trained at the art academy in Stockholm from 1879 to 1882 , after which he traveled to Düsseldorf , Bavaria , Italy and France . In 1882/83 he took private lessons from the Düsseldorf animal painter Carl Friedrich Deiker . His friends Anders Zorn (1860–1920) and Carl Larsson (1853–1919) exerted a great influence on his artistic development. In 1896 he received a small gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin .
Like no other, Liljefors described the everyday life of animals with their movement, anatomy and adaptation to nature. This was in complete contrast to the “idyllic” animal painting of that time. Well-known works are Die Fuchsfamilie (1886), Seeadler (1897) and the sculpture Game (1930) at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm. The background paintings in the Biological Museum , which was built for the Stockholm exhibition in 1897 and which can still be viewed, also came from him.
Bruno Liljefors younger brother was the composer Ruben Liljefors (1871-1936). Bruno Liljefors' studio in Österbybruk in the municipality of Östhammar is now a museum.
Winter landscape with a fox
Foxes (1885)
Mountain Hare (1908)
literature
- Bruno Liljefors . 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. 52 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Works by Bruno Liljefors in the Europeana
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liljefors, Bruno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Liljefors, Bruno Andreas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uppsala |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1939 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |