Edvard Bergh

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Edvard Bergh , 1865

Johan Edvard Bergh (born March 29, 1828 in Stockholm , Sweden ; † September 23, 1880 ibid) was a Swedish landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School and a notary .

Life

Bergh, a son of the businessman Severin Bergh (1788–1846) and his wife Emma Forsström (1809–1903), initially enrolled at Uppsala University in 1844 to study natural sciences, but soon switched to law , where he passed the main exam in 1849 . He then worked for a number of years as a notary at the Stockholm Court of Appeal and for the Stockholm District Court.

Solnedgång över fjärden , 1855
Sommarlandskap , 1873

He began his artistic activity as an autodidact after a trip to Gotland , during which he was encouraged to paint pictures by artists, including the architect Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander . This fascinated him more and more, so that he decided to study painting at the Stockholm Art Academy . A first attempt to be accepted there for studies failed. He also followed his passion and exhibited his pictures at the Stockholm Art Association. It was not until 1852 that Bergh was able to begin regular painting studies at the Stockholm Academy. For the picture Landskapsmotiv från Göta älv he received the first prize at an exhibition of the academy, which was endowed with a travel grant. This enabled him to move to Düsseldorf in 1854 , where he deepened landscape painting at the Royal Prussian Art Academy under the Norwegian Hans Fredrik Gude until 1855 . In 1855 he married the painter Amanda Helander (1825–1888), who gave birth to her son Richard in 1858 , who also became a painter. After studying in Düsseldorf, Bergh went to Geneva , where he was instructed by Alexandre Calame . He spent one winter in Rome . In the spring of 1857 he traveled north again via Venice and Munich .

In the autumn of 1857 he returned to Stockholm. In the same year he founded a landscape class at the Stockholm Art Academy. In 1861 he was appointed associate professor there after he had gained greater influence on Swedish art through his work as an academic teacher and his mood painting, which was strongly based on the landscape painting of Andreas Achenbach . In 1866 Bergh received six medals at the Scandinavian Exhibition in Stockholm, and in 1867 one gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris . With motifs from central Sweden, Bergh increasingly broke away from his Düsseldorf models from the end of the 1860s. In 1867 he became a full professor at the Stockholm Academy. In 1874 Bergh suffered a cerebral hemorrhage , which from then on paralyzed him and impaired his further artistic work.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johan Edvard Bergh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes 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
  2. ↑ 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. 426
personal data
SURNAME Bergh, Edvard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergh, Johan Edvard (full name); Bergh, Johan Edward; Bergh, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School and notary
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1880
Place of death Stockholm , Sweden