Gottfrid Virgin
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)
- 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
- 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 | |
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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 |