Hjalmar Munsterhjelm

Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (1890)

Magnus Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (born October 19, 1840 on the Toivoniemi manor, Tuulos parish ; died April 2, 1905 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Munsterhjelm was the son of Gustaf Riggert Munsterhjelm, staff commander in the Finnish Guard, and his wife Mathilda Charlotta Eleonora von Essen . At the request of his parents, he was supposed to become a painter, but initially resisted it and instead trained to become a sea captain at the Turku Maritime School. From 1860 he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , his teachers here included Andreas Müller , Hans Gude and Oswald Achenbach . After graduating in 1865, he followed Gude to Karlsruhe , where he continued his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts , and from 1867 as a private student of Gude.

In 1870 he returned to Finland and made several trips across the country in the following years. The landscapes he created during this time received several awards and are still considered his most successful works today. Several of these were used as illustrations in Zacharias Topelius ' En resa i Finland (“A journey through Finland”, published 1872–1874).

Sunset , oil on canvas (41 × 72.5 cm), between 1865 and 1870
Birch trees in summer , oil on canvas (33 × 55.5 cm), undated
On the archipelago , oil on canvas (38 × 61.5 cm), undated

In 1874 Munsterhjelm was accepted into the Russian Art Academy (initially as a "second class artist", a year later as such "first class"). In 1897 he was admitted to the Swedish Art Academy , and in 1901 he was made an honorary member of the Finnish Art Association. His son Ali Munsterhjelm (1873–1944) also made a name for himself as an artist.

literature

T. Stjernschantz: Munsterhjelm. 1. Magnus Hjalmar M . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 18 : Mekaniker – Mycale . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 1354-4355 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Munsterhjelm, Hjalmar (Magnus H.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 276 .
Aimo Reitala et al .: Hjalmar Munsterhjelm ja hänen maisemataiteensa. Punkaharjun taidekeskus, Punkaharju 1990, ISBN 951-8977-04-6 .
Aimo Reitala: Munsterhjelm, Hjalmar (1840–1905). in Matti Klinge (ed.): Suomen kansallisbiografia. Volume 6. SKS, Helsinki 2005, ISBN 951-746-447-9 .

Web links

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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. 436.

personal data
SURNAME	Munsterhjelm, Hjalmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Munsterhjelm, Magnus Hjalmar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 19, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tuulos
DATE OF DEATH	April 2, 1905
Place of death	Helsinki

[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. 436.