Edvard Westman
Gustav Edvard Westman , even Edouard Westman (* 16th May 1865 in Gävle , Sweden ; † 23. September 1917 in Kapellskär in Norrtälje , Sweden) was a Swedish landscape and marine painter and graphic artist . He is one of the Skagen painters .
Life
Westman, one of six children of the wholesaler Johan Ludvig Westman (1819-1893) and his wife Emma Elisabeth, née Holmström (1838-1911), studied art at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm . In the years 1882/1883 he was a private student of Oscar Törnå . He then went to Düsseldorf , where he studied from 1883 to 1885 at the Royal Prussian Art Academy with Heinrich Lauenstein . After he had stayed in Paris for a while , he went to Finland , where he settled in Turku as a painter and worked as a teacher at the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association in 1893/1894 and 1896. Together with Victor Westerholm , who also taught at this drawing school, Westman visited Lemland and Önningeby near Jomala on Åland , where an artists' colony had been formed since 1886 . From 1888 both of them visited the Danish artists' colony in Skagen . One of his work was given an honorable mention at the Exposition Universelle in 1889.
Works (selection)
- Strandlandskap (coastal landscape in Åland)
- Hufudskär , 1885
- Autumn in the Skagen Forest , 1888
- Tsarevna , 1894
- Summer night in Åland , 1896
- Haystack , 1898
- Sailboat , 1908
- Young woman on the coast , 1917
literature
- Georg Nordensvan : Westman, Gustaf Edvard . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 32 : Werth – Väderkvarn . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1921, Sp. 70 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Westman, Edvard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 454 .
- Kjell Ekström: Edvard Westman - bortglömd skagen- och önningebykolonist. In: Åländsk odling. Ålands folkminnesförbund, Mariehamn 1995, volume 55, pp. 65-74.
Web links
- Edvard Westman , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Edvard (Edouard) Westman , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
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. 442.
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| SURNAME | Westman, Edvard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Westman, Gustav Edvard (full name); Westman, Edouard; Westman, Gustaf Edvard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish landscape and marine painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gävle , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1917 |
| Place of death | Kapellskär near Norrtälje , Sweden |