Elias Erdtman
Elias Henrik Erdtman , also Elias Erdtmann (born October 22, 1862 in Linköping , Östergötland , Sweden , † September 20, 1945 in Stockholm ), was a Swedish landscape painter .
Life
Erdtman, son of the teacher Johan Henrik Erdtman (1826-1894) and his second wife Brita Catharina Fredrika Wiström (* 1830), attended the technical school in Stockholm after school in Linköping, as well as the private painting school of Edvard Perséus . In the years 1882/1883 he was a private student of the landscape painter Oscar Törnå . In 1883 he traveled to Düsseldorf , where Perséus and Törnå had also studied, and enrolled at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In the school years 1883 and 1884 he attended Heinrich Lauenstein's elementary class there . He made trips to Belgium and France ( Paris , Grez-sur-Loing ), the latter in 1886 together with Ernst Josephson and Carl Larsson . In the same year he was instructed in the technique of etching by Axel Tallberg . On December 10, 1896, in Västervik , he married Ottilia Mimmi Amanda Fagerlin (1868–1960), who gave birth to sons Otto Gunnar Elias (1897–1973, botanist) and Holger Gustaf Henrik (1902–1989, chemist). From 1898 Erdtman took part in most of the Konstnärsförbundet exhibitions, and from 1915 to 1920 he served on its board. He also sent international exhibitions in Paris, Berlin and Munich .
literature
- Georg Nordensvan : Erdtmann, Elias . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 594 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Viggo Loos: Elias Henrik Erdtman . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , Volume 14 (1953), p. 44.
- Kåa Wennberg: Landskapsmålaren Elias Erdtman . Axplock, Saltsjö-Boo 2016, ISBN 978-91-974612-4-5 .
Web links
- Elias Henrik Erdtman , Svenskt biografiskt lexikon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Nos. 3130 and 3131 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
- ↑ 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. 429
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erdtman, Elias |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Erdtman, Elias Henrik (full name); Erdtmann, Elias (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linköping , Östergötland , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1945 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |