Gustaf Wilhelm Palm
Gustaf Wilhelm Palm (born March 14, 1810 on Gut Herrlöf near Kristianstad , † September 20, 1890 ) was a Swedish painter.
Life
Palm became a student at the Stockholm Academy in 1828 and began exhibiting smaller landscape paintings in 1831. In 1833 he made a study trip to Norway and in 1837 he published two booklets with lithographs based on natural originals. In order to cure himself from an eye ailment, he traveled to Berlin in 1837 and, thanks to financial support from home, continued his journey via Hungary , Vienna and Venice to Rome , where he arrived in 1840. There Palm quickly gained a reputation whereupon he was able to sell several works to Russia, England and America.
From 1847 he used a more than two-year scholarship to study at the Roman Academy. During the unrest of 1848, Palm was enrolled in the Citizens' Council like almost all of Rome's artists, but according to his own statements he never took part in any fighting. After a long visit to Sicily , he went to Spain in 1851 and then back to Stockholm via Paris in 1852 . In Stockholm he became a member of the art academy and teacher of drawing, which he remained until 1878. In 1881 he received the title of vice professor.
Palm's daughter Anna Sofia (* 1859) followed in her father's footsteps and published a large number of watercolors .
Palm's work
Palm's preference was Italian landscapes and so he was nicknamed “Palma Vecchio” by his colleagues. He worked with great care and his flowers and trees were depicted with scientific precision. His works View at Vività Castellana (1846), Canal Grande in Venice (1860) and Ariccia in the afternoon sun (1864) can be seen in the Swedish National Museum. The pictures of Swedish cities made after his return were less popular. A collection of tree studies has been published as lithographs.
Selection of further works
- Exodus of the rebels from Vività Castellana (1849)
- Naples (1854)
- Colosseum (1857)
- Riddarholm Canal in Stockholm (1875)
- St. Hansgatan in Visby
- Östergatan and cathedral in Lund 1827 (1868)
literature
- Gustaf Wilhelm Palm . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 20 : Norrsken – Paprocki . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1914, Sp. 1334 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palm, Gustaf Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kristianstad |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1890 |