Gottfrid Virgin

Gottfrid Virgin , photo

Arvid Julius Gottfrid Virgin (born June 9, 1831 in Visby on Gotland , Sweden , † April 30, 1876 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish portrait , genre and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Virgin was a son of the artillery captain Johan Fredrik Wirgin (1788-1863) and his wife Sofia Lovisa Crusell (1800-1876). After finishing school, he attended the Stockholm Art Academy from 1852 , where he participated in academy exhibitions from 1858. In 1862 and 1863 he went abroad, to Düsseldorf and Paris . In 1862 Virgin became a member (agré) of the Stockholm Art Academy. Eva Bonnier was his student.

Works (selection)

Robert Constantin and Maria Eleonora Berggren

Room in Sorunda , 1860, Swedish National Museum
Dalarna Girls , 1861, National Museum of Sweden
Robert Constantin Berggren and Maria Eleonora Berggren , Swedish National Museum
Charles XV of Sweden , Swedish National Museum

family

Virgin belonged to a noble family that originally came from Pomerania . His father had completed a military career and on April 9, 1820 married the daughter of Captain CJ Krusell (also written as Crusell) and his wife Sophia Jacobina (née Hofving). Virgin had several siblings:

five brothers: Carl Frederic Samuel (* 1821), Robert Wilhelm Urban (1823–1855), Otto Birger Theodor (* 1824), Claës Gustav Leopold (* 1825), Axel Barthold Adrian (* 1828) and Johann Bernhard Alfred (* 1830 )
and two sisters: Sophia Margaretha Charlotta (* 1822) and Amalia Aurora Clementina († 1827)

On November 1, 1866, he married Anna Severina Carolina Olivia (nee Gelertsen, 1846-1884). The couple had a daughter Arla (* 1871), who married Curt Wallis (1845-1922) in 1893, a professor of pathological anatomy at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

literature

G. Upmark: Virgin, Arvid Julius Gottfrid . In: John Rosén (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 17 : V-Väring . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1893, Sp. 1172 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Virgin, Gottfrid . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 399 .
Arvid Julius Gottfrid Virgin (1831–1876). [Description for picture 61–63] Gerda Cederblom (Ed.): Svenska folklivsbilder. Aktiebolaget Grohmann & Eichelberg, Stockholm 1923, pp. 24-25 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Gottfrid Virgin - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Gottfrid Virgin . Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Arvid Julius Gottfrid Virgin . Entry in the portal lexikonettamanda.se
Gottfrid (Arvid Julius G.) Virgin (Swedish, 1831–1876). artnet .com

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 442.
↑ Virgin . In: Gabriel Anrep (Ed.): Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor . PA Nōrstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1864, p. 618–624, here p. 621 , tab 11 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10427918-4 ( opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de - here June 10th is given as his birthday).
^ Nobility. atten Virgin, N: o 1848. In: Sveriges Ridderskaps och Adels Kalender för år 1900. 23rd year, Albert Bonniers boktryckeri, Stockholm 1899, pp. 1245–1251, here p. 1247 ( runeberg.org ).
↑ Virgin nr 1848 adelsvapen.com.

personal data
SURNAME	Virgin, Gottfrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Virgin, Arvid Julius Gottfrid (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish portrait, genre and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Visby on Gotland, Sweden
DATE OF DEATH	April 30, 1876
Place of death	Stockholm

[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. 442.

[2] Virgin . In: Gabriel Anrep (Ed.): Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor . PA Nōrstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1864, p. 618–624, here p. 621 , tab 11 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10427918-4 ( opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de - here June 10th is given as his birthday).

[3] Nobility. atten Virgin, N: o 1848. In: Sveriges Ridderskaps och Adels Kalender för år 1900. 23rd year, Albert Bonniers boktryckeri, Stockholm 1899, pp. 1245–1251, here p. 1247 ( runeberg.org ).

[4] Virgin nr 1848 adelsvapen.com.