Gustaf Romin

Gustaf Romin , photo from a contemporary lexicon

Gustaf Adolf Romin (born November 16, 1863 in Visby , Gotland , Sweden , † 1936 in Berlin ) was a Swedish landscape , marine , war and genre painter .

Life

Coastal landscape with a sailing ship

Romin, fourth of four children of the tanner Carl Petter Romin (1832–1901) and his wife Catharina Helena Eriksson (1820–1900), younger brother of the painter Karl Romin , went to Düsseldorf in 1892, like the latter a few years earlier, to paint to study. Soon after, however, he moved to Berlin , where he settled permanently. For a short time in 1892 he was a student of the landscape painter Hans Fredrik Gude . In the years 1892/1893 he went on a study trip to the United States , in 1893 he traveled to Holland , London and Sweden, in 1896 to Munich and Paris . Inspired by naval battles and the aerial warfare of the First World War , he worked as a war painter by creating pictures with battle scenes of warships, submarines and airplanes - for the family magazine Daheim , for example .

literature

John Kruse : Gustaf Adolf Romin . In: Svenskt Portraittgalleri , Volume 14, Chapter XX: Arkitekter, bildhuggare, målare, tecknare, grafiker, mönsterritare och konstindustrialister . Stockholm 1901, p. 140

Web links

Commons : Gustaf Romin - collection of images, videos and audio files

Gustaf Adolf Romin , genealogical data sheet in the portal tng.omans.se
Gustav Romin , search result with works by Romin in the portal deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de ( German digital library )

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. 438
↑ See. About naval battle , Illustration for the magazine Daheim , Heft 5/1916 ( digital copy ), or a drama about the clouds in issue 6/1917 ( digitized )

personal data
SURNAME	Romin, Gustaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Romin, Gustaf Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish landscape, marine, war and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 16, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Visby , Gotland , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH	1936
Place of death	Berlin

[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. 438

[2] See. About naval battle , Illustration for the magazine Daheim , Heft 5/1916 ( digital copy ), or a drama about the clouds in issue 6/1917 ( digitized )