Hjalmar Mörner

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Hjalmar Mörner (from Per Södermark )

Carl Gustaf Hjalmar Mörner (also: Morner) (* May 7, 1794 in Stockholm ; † September 15, 1837 in Paris ) was a Swedish count, officer , draftsman , painter , etcher and lithographer .

Life

Mörner came from the Swedish branch of the German noble family Mörner . He was the son of Count Gustaf Fredrik Mörner (October 11, 1768 to January 19, 1841) and Baroness Augusta Lovisa (née von Höpken), his great-grandmother was Ulla von Fersen. He was a nephew of Axel Otto Graf Mörner . Mörner initially embarked on a military career and in 1810 became a cornet with the "Smålands lätta dragoner" (Småland light dragoons) and took part in the battles in Großbeeren, Dennewitz, Leipzig and Bornhöft. In 1823 he was made a knight master and took his leave.

He began training as a painter (mostly as an autodidact ) and traveled to Italy from 1816 to 1828, where he studied and worked in Rome from 1825 to 1828 on a scholarship abroad . He lived in London from 1830 to 1836 before settling in Paris.

Grave of Hjalmar Mörner Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris (2013)

He died there unmarried in 1837 and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery. Mörner preferred to paint genre pictures and folk scenes.

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SURNAME Mörner, Hjalmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mörner, Carl Gustaf Hjalmar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish count, officer, draftsman, painter, etcher and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1837
Place of death Paris