Gustaf Rydberg

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Gustaf Rydberg, photo around 1925

Gustaf Fredrik Rydberg (born September 13, 1835 in Malmö ; † October 11, 1933 there ) was a Swedish landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Rydberg was born the son of postmaster Gustaf Isak Rydberg and his wife Elise Charlotte Zickerman. He went to Latin school for four years in his native Malmö. From 1852 to 1855 Rydberg attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen . There he was a student of the landscape painter Frederik Christian Jakobsen Kiærskou (1805-1891). He also attended the Royal Art Academy Stockholm from 1857 to 1859 under Johan Edvard Bergh . Like many other Swedish painters of his time, he went to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1859 , where he was a student of Hans Fredrik Gude until 1862 and was taught by Oswald Achenbach in the school year 1862/1863 . After completing his studies, Rydberg stayed in Düsseldorf for a while . However, in summer he traveled to Skåne , his home in southern Sweden, to paint landscapes. In 1864 he settled in Stockholm . In 1868 he accompanied Charles XV. from Sweden and Norway on a trip to Norway. In the following year, the king financed another trip there. In 1870 he stayed in Düsseldorf again. Around 1885 he moved to Torsebro , a place near Kristianstad . On March 14, 1887, he married Ebba Josephina Borgström (1839–1905) in Kristianstad. Rydberg was friends with the painter Alfred Wahlberg , whom he had met in Düsseldorf, the painter Reinhold Norstedt (1843-1911) and the art historian Axel Gauffin (1877-1964). In 1920 the Stockholm Art Academy organized an anniversary exhibition with around 260 of his works. Rydberg's grave is in Malmö's Old Cemetery.

Works (selection)

Vinterlandskap med hästfora , 1868
Pilvall och kålfalt, motif from Viby , 1904
Möllan 'på slatten , 1904

Rydberg was one of the first outdoor painters in Sweden. In a late romantic perspective, he painted lyrical landscapes, often farms, mills and lakes in detailed compositions with deep horizons. Rydberg's works can be seen in the Malmö Museum and the Swedish National Museum, among others .

  • Motif from Wermland , 1865
  • Vinterlandskap med hästfora , 1868
  • Från Ramlösa med Hälsingborg i bakgrunden , 1893
  • Summer day, Arilds läge , 1894
  • Bondgård i Falsterbo med blommande äng , 1900
  • Pilvall och kålfalt, motif from Viby , 1904
  • Möllan 'på slatten , 1904
  • Nätutläggning på Ringsjön , 1914

literature

Web links

Commons : Gustaf Rydberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Jane Rothlind: Gustaf F Rydberg . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , Volume 31 (2000–2002), p. 25, website in the portal sok.riksarkivet.se
  • Gustaf Rydberg . Short biography on idstories.se portal(Swedish)
  • Gustaf Rydberg . Auction results in the portal artnet.com

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 146 f.
  2. ↑ 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. 439
  3. ^ Gustaf Frederik Rydberg . Website in the portal gravsted.dk ; accessed on January 7, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Rydberg, Gustaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rydberg, Gustaf Fredrik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmo
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1933
Place of death Malmo