Erik Johan Löfgren

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Self-portrait, 1847

Erik Johan Löfgren (born May 15, 1825 in Åbo , Grand Duchy of Finland ; † December 10, 1884 ibid) was a Finnish history and portrait painter .

Life

Fredrik Cygnaeus , 1856

Löfgren was the son of the businessman Gabriel Johan Löfgren and his wife Katarina, nee Wahlsten. He first studied in Åbo with the Norwegian drawing teacher Thomas Joachim Legler (1806–1873). He then trained in painting from 1842 to 1852 at the Stockholm Art Academy , among others with the history and portrait painters Fredric Westin and Per Krafft the Elder. J. He financed his studies as a restorer in the collection of paintings in Stockholm Palace. In 1843 he received a sponsorship award from the art academy, and in 1846 a second prize. In 1848 he sent his self-portrait to Åbo and made his debut there with the exhibition of his painting The Holy Caecilie . As a scholarship holder of the Finnish Art Association, he traveled via Berlin and Dresden to Düsseldorf , where he took private lessons from the history painter Theodor Hildebrandt and the portrait painter Otto Mengelberg , both representatives of the Düsseldorf School, from 1853 to 1858 . In 1856 he painted the portrait of the university professor Fredrik Cygnaeus . The painting Christ in Gethsemane ( Kristus Getsemanessa ) was also created in Düsseldorf and was sent to the parish church of Jackima as an altarpiece.

From 1858 he worked first - at times as a teacher - in Åbo, then in Helsinfors ( Helsinki ), among other things as a teacher of Victorine Nordenswan . During this time, numerous portraits were created, such as those of parents, siblings and other relatives as well as the poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg . In 1862 he moved to Paris , where he temporarily lived with the landscape painter Eugène Lavielle (1820–1889) on Montmartre . He submitted his paintings Italian Tambourine Player and the historical painting Erik XIV and Karin Månsdotter to the salon's exhibitions . From 1865 to 1879 he lived in Finland again. In 1879 he went to Munich , where he suffered a stroke in 1881, the consequences of which hindered his work so much that he could not finish an assignment and was forced to return to Finland.

Löfgren was a member of the Finnish Association of Artists, which held a retrospective exhibition with 70 paintings by the artist in February 1885. Works by his hand can be found in the Ateneum art museums and the Cygnaeuksen Gallery in Helsinki as well as in the museums of Turku and Tampere .

Works (selection)

Erik XIV. And Karin Månsdotter , 1863

In addition to paintings by the landscape painter Werner Holmberg and sculptures by the sculptor Carl Eneas Sjöstrand (1828–1906), Löfgren's works were among the first acquisitions by the Finnish Art Association (Suomen Taideyhdistys) , whose collection was founded by the Finnish National Gallery .

  • Portrait of a Young Man , 1846, Cygnaeus Gallery Helsinki
  • Ariadne , copy after Adolph Ulrich Werthmüller, 1847
  • Self-Portrait , Stockholm 1847, Ateneum Helsinki Art Museum
  • Saint Caecilie , Stockholm 1848, Turku Art Museum
  • Psyche , Stockholm 1851, issued in Åbo 1851
  • Jesus in Gethsemane , Düsseldorf 1854
  • Girl with Flowers , Düsseldorf 1858, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
  • Hagar in the Desert , 1858, commissioned by the Finnish Art Association: Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum
  • Dreams / Sitting lady with loose hair , Paris 1863, exhibited as Réveries in the Salon de Paris 1863, Art Museum Ateneum Helsinki
  • Erik XIV. And Karin Månsdotter , Paris 1863/64, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki; Order and legacy of the judge and councilor Herman Hallonblad (1825–1894) and his wife Elisabet in Sortavala, Finland
  • Italian woman with tambourine , Paris 1864, Ateneum Helsinki Art Museum
  • Blessing Christ , altarpiece for the parish church in Orimattila, Finland, 1874
  • Transfiguration of Christ , altarpiece for the parish church in Somero, Finland
  • Lady in 18th Century Costume , Munich 1881/84, Ateneum Helsinki Art Museum
  • Braid Girl , 1884.
  • Portraits: Fredrik Cygnaeus (1856, Helsinki, University); Bookseller's daughter Maria Emilia Thunberg (1859, Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum); Johan L. Runeberg (1861); Carl Gustaf Estonia (1864); Johan Reinhold Munck (1866); Magnus von Wright (1867); Robert von Trapp (1871; Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum); Knut Felix von Willebrand (around 1871; Helsinki, Cygnaeus Gallery); Zachris Topelius (1872); H. Rosenberg (1875: Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum); Cecilie Gustava Meijer, b. Lindroos; Johan Hendrik Lindroos (1798-1862); Jenny Amanda Cecilia Costiander, b. Neovius (1878); Minister of State Count Armfelt (1870s); Linguist Axel Olof Freudenthal (1836–1911)

Portrait

  • Karl Ferdinand Sohn : The head of the painter Erik Löfgren from Finland , 1858; Pencil, heightened with white, on brownish paper, 10.1 × 16.2 cm; monogrammed and dated lower right: S 18/5 58.

Awards

  • 1866: Medal of Merit Litteris et Artibus by King Charles XV.
  • 1866: 2nd prize for the portrait of Johan Reinhold Munck on the occasion of the annual exhibition of the Finnish Art Association in 1866
  • 1873: Small gold medal from the St. Petersburg Art Exhibition

literature

  • Johan Jakob Tikkanen: Finska konstföreningen 1846–1896 . 1896, p.?.
  • Directory of the art collections in the Atheneum Helsingfors . Helsinki 1912, p. (with short biographies).
  • Löfgren, Erik Johan . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 17 : Lux-Mekanik . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1912, Sp. 246 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Löfgren, Erik . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 319 .
  • Ludvig Wennervirta: Finland's Konsten . Helsinki 1934 (2 fig.).
  • Ludvig Wennervirta: Suomen taidetta 1800-luvulaa . Porvoo 1934.
  • Svenskt Konstnärs Lexikon , Vol. 4. Stockholm 1961.
  • Kuvataiteilijat. Suomen kuvataiteilijoiden henkilöhakemisto (directory of Finnish artists of the 19th and 20th centuries; Finnish: short biography with photo). Helsinki 1972, p.?.
  • Erik Johan Löfgren: kuvataiteen lyyrinen romantikko (Romanticism in Art. Exhibition Catalog: 6/9 / 1989-28 / 1/1990) Museovirasto, 1989, ISBN 951-9075-31-3 .
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , p. 354 (2 figs.).
  • Steffen Stolz: Löfgren, Erik Johan . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 95, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-023261-5 , p. 153.

Web links

Commons : Erik Johan Löfgren  - 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. 435.
  2. ↑ After the Second World War it was assigned to the parish church in Kesälahti .
  3. ↑ Finsk artist i utlandet: Målaren EJ Löfgren. In: Helsingfors Tidningar No. 286, December 9, 1862, p. 1.
  4. ^ Susanna Pettersson: Producing an art history of the nation: The origins of the Finnish National Gallery . In: Simon J. Knell et al. (Ed.): National Museums. New Studies From Around the World . Routledge, New York NY 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-54773-4 , p. 144
  5. ↑ a b Figure: Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule, Vol. 2.
  6. ↑ Illustration: Wennervirta 1934
  7. ^ Auction catalog 715, Lempertz, Cologne, May 20, 1995, No. 1258.
personal data
SURNAME Löfgren, Erik Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Turku , Grand Duchy of Finland
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1884
Place of death Turku , Grand Duchy of Finland