Gustaf Fjæstad
Gustaf Adolf Christensen Fjæstad (born December 22, 1868 in Stockholm , † July 17, 1948 in Arvika , Sweden) was a Swedish painter.
Live and act
Gustaf Fjæstad was born in Stockholm in 1868. He studied first from 1891-92 at the art academy and then at the school of the Swedish Konstnärsförbundet . In 1893 he was assistant to Bruno Liljefors and then to Carl Larsson when he was painting the frescoes in the stairwell of the Swedish National Museum .
In 1898 Gustaf Fjæstad married Maria Hellén, a young artist who had also studied at the school of the Swedish Konstnärsförbundet. Influenced by the national and romantic ideas prevalent in Konstnärsförbundet, the couple moved to Värmland on Lake Racken in search of untouched landscape and rural folklore . Soon other artist colleagues followed and the artist colony Rackengruppen was created .
Gustaf Fjæstad's landscapes from Värmland, often winter landscapes and evening landscapes, attracted a great deal of attention at exhibitions in Stockholm, and in 1908 he had his first solo exhibition there. In 1914 he had an exhibition in Berlin and in 1927 in London . Today his pictures can be found in the Swedish National Museum , in the Thielska galleriet in Stockholm and in the Gothenburg Art Museum .
Gustaf Fjæstad was also interested in handicrafts. He painted templates for tapestries and designed furniture made by local carpenters, e.g. B. for Thielska galleriet.
literature
Karin Sidén (Ed.): Nordiskt sekelskifte. The Light of the North. Stockholm 1995.
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| SURNAME | Fjæstad, Gustaf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fjæstad, Gustaf Adolf Christensen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1948 |
| Place of death | Arvika , Sweden |