Fredric Westin

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Fredric Westin, drawn by Leonard Roos af Hjälmsäter , 1824

Fredric Westin (born September 22, 1782 in Stockholm , † May 13, 1862 ibid) was a Swedish history and portrait painter .

Life

Altarpiece by Fredric Westin in Turku Cathedral (1836)

Westin was a student with Lorenz Pasch the Younger and Louis Masreliez at the Kungliga Konsthögskolan in his hometown. After he was appointed advocate (Agré) of the teaching institution in 1808, he was elected to the executive committee of the academy in 1812. In 1815 he became associate professor and in 1816 full professor at the art academy, which he headed from 1828 to 1840. In 1843 he was appointed court manager.

Westin's early and most important works include four paintings on the subject of the hours of the day that adorn the bedchamber of Rosersberg Castle . They were created between 1812 and 1813 and depict Aurora scattering flowers over the earth , Apollo with his team of four , Diana followed by the sunset and The Night with its star-strewn cloth . Säfstaholm Castle is home to The Seasons presented by the Earth Goddesses (1843 ) and at Rosendal Castle Hebe with the eagle (1832) and Flora decorating the bust of Linnaeus (1843). In the Stockholm University is a young girl The music represented by a group to see. Westin also painted compositions on Swedish history such as, The Baptism of Olof Skötkonung and Acceptance of Luther's Teachings .

Westin created a large number of portraits on behalf of King Charles XIV John . As a portrait painter, however, he was controversial. Journalist Gustaf Abraham Silverstolpe , for example, lamented in 1809 that an artist who possessed such skills was engaged in such simple art, and he hoped that Westin would find its way back from the plain real world to the poetic . The art historian Lorenzo Hammarsköld said in 1818 that Westin had the least talent for portrait painting of all Swedish painters, and Scholander called his portraits wax men . Other artists, however, praised the portraits with words of praise. The architect Jacob Wilhelm Gerss described these paintings as comfortable, simple in clothing and position with natural shapes and security, as well as truthfulness in execution. Ture Gustaf Wennberg described Westin as a worthy foster son of the unique Swedish draftsman Lorenz Pasch .

After Johan Gustaf Sandberg's altar panel for St. James' Church in Stockholm was rejected, Westin was commissioned to create an altar panel. The painting Transfiguration of the Lord was completed in 1828 and was both extolled and criticized. Other Westin altarpieces can be found in the Ulrika Eleonora Church in Stockholm ( Christ's Resurrection , 1825), the Turku Cathedral ( Transfiguration of the Lord , 1836), the Church of Uddevalla ( Christ blesses the children ) and in the Carl Gustaf Church in Lund ( burial of Christ , 1832).

Other works (selection)

Karl XIV. Johann, painting by Fredric Westin, 1838

literature

  • Swedish artist lexicon. Volume V, Malmö 1967, p. 642.
  • Georg Nordensvan : Fredrik Westin . In: Svensk konst och svenska konstnärer i nittonde århundradet . Ny, Grundligt omarbetad upplaga - New, thoroughly revised edition. tape 1 : I. Från Gustav III till Karl XV . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1925, p. 195-197, 334-338 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Fredric Westin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 3. Westin, Fredrik . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 712-713 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ↑ 3. Fredrik W [estrin] . 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. 62-64 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  3. ↑ Nordensvan: Svensk konst och svenska konstnärer i nittonde århundradet. 1925, pp. 196-197, 338.
  4. ↑ Nordensvan: Svensk konst och svenska konstnärer i nittonde århundradet. 1925, p. 196.
  5. ↑ Nordensvan: Svensk konst och svenska konstnärer i nittonde århundradet. 1925, pp. 335-336.
personal data
SURNAME Westin, Fredric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westin, Fredrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish history and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1862
Place of death Stockholm