Ernst Syberg

Ernst Axel Syberg (born January 12, 1906 in Pilegården, Kerteminde , † August 17, 1981 in Vellerup, Skibby ) was a Danish painter. He belonged to the artists' colony Odsherred Painters .

family

Ernst Syberg came from an artistic family. His grandfather, the decorative painter Peter Syrak Hansen, ran an open house for painters and art students on the island of Funen . His mother Anna Syberg (née Hansen), his father Fritz Syberg and his uncle Peter Hansen are some of Denmark's most famous painters. His brother Fritz Syberg became known as a composer.

Create

Ernst Syberg completed a law degree at the University of Copenhagen until 1931 before he devoted himself to landscape painting as an autodidact , mainly with watercolors and oil paintings. He joined the landscape painters Karl Bovin (1907–1985) and Alfred Simonsen (1906–1935) and the artists' colony Odsherred Painters in northwestern Zealand . Travels to France , Spain and Italy aroused his interest in architecture, especially in Italy, and paintings of buildings, streets and squares were created. Syberg designed wall decorations in Florence and Rome . The artists' association Corner in Copenhagen gave him a reliable opportunity to exhibit his works. Works by Ernst Syberg hang mainly in Nordic museums, for example a double portrait of his parents in the Danish National Gallery, in the Statens Museum in Copenhagen. Ernst Syberg died in Vellerup in August 1981.

literature

• Ernst Syberg. In: Weilbach's Kunstnerleksikon. 4th edition. (Danish) (kulturarv.dk)

Web links

• Pictures of Syberg in the Odsherred Museum
• Works by Ernst Syberg at art.net