Ehrnfried Wahlqvist

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Carl Johan Ehrnfried Wahlqvist , also Ernfried Wahlqvist or Ehrenfried Wahlqvist (born March 26, 1815 in Ystad , Skåne , Sweden ; † May 3, 1895 in Stockholm ), was a Swedish landscape and marine painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Wahlqvist was initially a trumpeter in a Swedish hussar regiment . Then he studied painting in Copenhagen before he stayed in Düsseldorf between 1850 and 1855 , where he was a private student of the landscape painter Carl Hilgers .

Works (selection)

Issågning på Hammarby sjö, kvarnen Klippan i bakgrunden (Ice skating on Hammarby Lake) , 1864
Swedish coastal landscape with a boathouse

Wahlqvist mainly painted landscapes, not infrequently romantic motifs in the moonlight, often seascapes, more rarely genre pictures and portraits. His works have been shown in art associations and at international exhibitions.

  • Landskapsvy med kyrka vid vattendrag (Landscape with a Church by a River) , 1863.
  • Issågning på Hammarby sjö, kvarnen Klippan i bakgrunden (Ice skating on Hammarby Lake) , 1864.
  • Utsikt från Alvik in mot staden (view from Alvik towards the city) , 1884.
  • Swedish coastal landscape with a boathouse
  • The Crown Bride

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernfried Wahlqvist  - 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. 442.