Fredrik Ahlstedt

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Fredrik Ahlstedt

August Fredrik Ahlstedt (born April 24, 1839 in Turku , Grand Duchy of Finland , † August 19, 1901 in Pargas , Grand Duchy of Finland) was a Finnish landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Höst (autumn)

The son of the court assessor Leonard Ahlstedt and Jakobina Fredrika, née Palander, studied from 1853 to 1855 at the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association with Robert Wilhelm Ekman in Åbo (Turku) and from 1866 to 1868 and 1870/71 at the Royal Art Academy Stockholm . In 1869/70 and from 1871 to 1874 he stayed in Düsseldorf without being enrolled at the art academy. From 1874 he worked as a teacher at the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association in Turku, from 1876 to 1893 as an art teacher at the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association in Helsingfors, interrupted by a short stay in Léon Bonnat's studio in Paris in 1880/81 . Until 1893 he was teacher and rector of the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association in Helsingfors and from 1892 to 1901 professor at the local Alexander University . His students included Eero Järnefelt and Akseli Gallen-Kallela . His wife Nina, née Lignell (1853–1907), a former student, was also a painter. Both were friends with Victor Westerholm , whose artist colony in Önningeby near Jomala on Åland they visited. Ahlstedt was artist friend and biographer of the Finnish painter Fanny Churberg .

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Ahlstedt mainly worked on depictions of landscapes, preferring local motifs, which he also used in Düsseldorf. The influence of the Düsseldorf School of Painting is most clearly expressed in the composition and coloring. In addition, figurative compositions and portraits were created. He had been a member of the Finnish Artists Association since 1869 and received numerous awards, including the Ducat Prize of the Finnish Art Association in 1869, the 1st Prize at the 1st Finnish Art and Industry Exhibition in 1873, and the Finnish State Prize in 1889 and 1892. On the occasion of his participation in the art exhibitions of the world exhibitions in Paris in 1886 and 1900, he was each awarded a bronze medal.

  • From the Aura River in Turku , 1861: Pori, Satakunnan Museo.
  • View of Aurajärvi in ​​Kuru , 65 x .5 x 85 cm, 1872 (1912 Ateneum Helsinki, cat.no.3).
  • Portrait of the writer Nils Henrik Pinello (1802–1879) , 89 × 71 cm, 1875 (1912 Ateneum Helsinki, cat. No. 4).
  • Autumn landscape with figures , around 1875: Turku, Art Museum.
  • Portrait of the painter Gustaf Wilhelm Finnberg (1784–1833) , 70.5 × 55 cm, 1876 (1912 Ateneum Helsinki, cat. No. 5).
  • Parainen archipelago , 1877: Espoo, Neste AG.
  • Fishermen on the Coast , 1877.
  • The Hunger Winter of 1872 , 1877.
  • Portrait of the painter Karl Emanuel Jansson (1846–1874) , 64 × 55 cm, 1879 (1912 Ateneum Helsinki, cat. No. 6).
  • Girl at the fountain; Winter , 79 × 55 cm, 1882: Bukowski auction, Helsinki, November 28, 1992 (Art Prize Yearbook 1993).
  • Rest during the harvest , 135 × 243 cm, 1884 (1912 Ateneum Helsinki, cat.no.8).
  • Winter landscape , 24.5 × 18.5 cm, 1880 (1912 Ateneum Helsinki, cat.no.9).
  • July day on the coast of Finby (Töölönlahdella), 1887.
  • Mourning on an emigrant farm , 1892: Tallinn, Estonian Art Museum> Kumu <.
  • Matti on the Schwendeland , 75 × 100 cm, 1893 (1912 Ateneum Helsinki, cat.no.11).
  • Juhlapukuinen tyttö (Festive Girl), 1894.
  • Young mother in landscape , 1894.
  • In the forest (Tyttö metsässä), 1897; Fig .: Wennervirta 1934.
  • Sounds of Summer Nights , 1898: Turku, Art Museum.
  • Madonna ja lapsi (Madonna with Child), 1899.
  • Serenadi rantaäyräällä (Serenade on the Beach), 1890s.
  • The Serenade (Serenadi); Fig .: Wennervirta 1934.
  • Portrait of the architect Theodor Decker (1838–1899) , 77 × 59 cm (1912 Ateneum Helsinki, cat. No. 10).

Fonts

  • Fanny Maria Churberg . In: Finska qvinnor på olika arbetsområden. Biografiskt album , Finsk Qvinnoförening (Finnish Women's Association), Helsinki 1892

literature

  • E. Aspelin: Suomalaisen taiteen historia päpiirteissään . Helsingfors (Helsinki) 1891, p. 16.
  • Johan Jacob Tikkanen : Den finska konstföreningen 1846-1896 . Helsingfors 1896.
  • Johan Jakob Tikkanen: Ahlstedt, August Fredrik . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 143 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Nordisk familjebok , Volume 1, Stockholm 1904, p. 379 f.
  • Johan Jacob Tikkanen: Modern Art in Finland . Helsinki 1925.
  • Konrad Hahm : Art in Finland . Berlin 1933.
  • Ludvig Wennervirta: Finland's Konsten . Helsinki 1934.
  • Suomen kuvaamataiteilijat. Helsinki 1943.
  • Kuvataiteilijat. Helsinki 1972 (photo).
  • Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays , Vol. 1, 1976.
  • Ahlstedt, August Fredrik . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 . ISBN 978-3-598-22741-7 .
  • Hanna Rönnberg: Konstnärskolonien på Åland , Konstnärsliv II, Önningebymuseet, Mariehamn 1993.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 56–57 (Fig .: View of Aurejärvi in ​​Kurus Kapeli , 1872; portrait by NH Pinello , 1875; further literature).

Web links

Commons : Fredrik Ahlstedt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kuvataiteilijat 1972
  2. ↑ Finnish National Museum : Taiteilijakirjekokoelma ( PDF ), p. 2 f.
  3. ↑ 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. 425
  4. ↑ Cecilia Lengefeld: City - Country - Sea. The Finnish bohemian artist is withdrawing. A European comparison . Lecture in: Finland around 1900 - Art as a trailblazer , international symposium as part of the special exhibition "The light is now coming from the north" - Art Nouveau in Finland , November 8th to 9th, 2002 in the Bröhan Museum , Berlin ( PDF ), p. 1
  5. ↑ according to the information in the dictionary of the Düsseldorf School of Painting
personal data
SURNAME Ahlstedt, Fredrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahlstedt, August Fredrik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Turku , Grand Duchy of Finland
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1901
Place of death Pargas , Grand Duchy of Finland