Gunnar Brynolf Wennerberg

Brynolf Wennerberg , photo, around 1880

Gunnar Brynolf Wennerberg , also Brynolf Wennerberg the Elder (born August 16, 1823 in Lidköping , Västergötland , Sweden ; † October 3, 1894 in Gothenburg , Sweden), was a Swedish farmer , stud owner and portrait and horse painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Wennerberg, son of the orientalist and provost Gunnar Wennerberg (1782–1860) and his wife Sara Margareta, née Klingstedt (1787–1875), brother of the poet, composer, civil servant and politician Gunnar Wennerberg , showed an early interest in horses, painting and music . He probably received his first painting lessons from the Swedish painter Uno Troili (1815–1875). In 1850 he went to Copenhagen to study art . When he and his brother Gunnar received a royal travel grant a year later, they went to Germany . They first went by ship to Stettin , then on by train via Berlin to Leipzig , where they visited museums and concerts. They then traveled on to Düsseldorf . There their ways parted. While Gunnar set off on a trip to Italy, Brynolf enrolled at the Royal Prussian Art Academy to study painting. From 1852 to 1855 he stayed in the city on the Rhine as a pupil of Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Rudolf Wiegmann , where he followed Carl d'Unker , August Jernberg , Axel Nordgren and Bengt Nordenberg , before Josef Wilhelm Wallander , Peter Eskilsson , Ferdinand Fagerlin and Alfred Wahlberg , Albert Berg (1832–1916) and Johan Edvard Bergh and at about the same time as Marcus Larson , Per Södermark and Kilian Zoll was one of the first Swedish art students. After he returned to Sweden, in 1855 he published the album Bilder ur svenska folklifvet (Pictures from Swedish folk life) together with Wallander, Zoll, Nordenberg and Johan Frederik Höckert (1826–1866 ) . He also painted portraits, for example of the Swedish school reformer Torsten Rudenschöld (1798–1859) and of his father. With the first money he earned as a painter in Sweden, he financed a trip to Paris until 1857 . There he visited the studio of Thomas Couture . He spent this time in close contact with the horse painter John Arsenius (1818–1903), a college friend of his brother Gunnar.

Isfärden

After he returned to his homeland by 1860, he decided to marry Georgina Charlotta Schoug (1830–1870), the daughter of the rich, German-born merchant Johann Peter Schoug (1802–1890), and to lease the Djurgården estate on Kållandsö . In 1864 the daughter Gunilla († 1910) was born, in 1866 the son Brynolf , who later became a well-known illustrator and commercial artist , and in 1868 the daughter Sara Ingrid Charlotta († 1928). He had a studio built on Djurgården and combined agriculture, horse breeding and riding with painting. Wennerberg specialized in horse painting, the results of which he presented at several exhibitions - albeit without any major response. When his wife died of pneumonia in 1870, he soon married her sister Eugenia Louise (1845–1915), who gave birth to their son Barbro and daughter Sara Margaret Eugenia Eufrosyne (1875–1959), both later musicians, who had studied in Stockholm , Leipzig and Berlin embarking on a career as a composer and organist at Stockholm's Sophienkirche under the name Sara Wennerberg-Reuter . The family's hospitable house, which had been visited by many artists - such as Wilhelm Dahlbom , Arvid Mauritz Lindström , Reinhold Callmander , Frederik Collett , Hjalmar Meissner (1865–1940) and Emma Meissner (1866–1942) - was opened on a summer's day the year 1889 was destroyed by flames. This was a hard blow of fate, which resulted in the family headquarters moving to Gothenburg. Until Wennerberg's death in 1894, one wing of the burned down manor house could only be used as a summer residence.

Web links

Commons : Gunnar Brynolf Wennerberg - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Brynolf Wennerberg , biography in the portal torehartung.se
Gunnar Brynolf Wennerberg , biography in the portal lexikonettamanda.se

Individual evidence

^ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists and 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
^ Georg Nordensvan : Swedish art of the 19th century . Reprint of the original from 1904, Salzwasser-Verlag, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-84608-415-1 , p. 51 ( Google Books )

personal data
SURNAME	Wennerberg, Gunnar Brynolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wennerberg, Brynolf the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish farmer, stud owner and portrait and horse painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 16, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lidköping , Västergötland , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH	October 3, 1894
Place of death	Gothenburg , Sweden

[1] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists and 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] Georg Nordensvan : Swedish art of the 19th century . Reprint of the original from 1904, Salzwasser-Verlag, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-84608-415-1 , p. 51 ( Google Books )