Hugo Salmson

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Hugo Salmson

Hugo Fredrik Salmson (born July 7, 1843 in Stockholm , † August 1, 1894 in Lund ) was a Swedish painter .

biography

Salmson initially followed the wishes of his father, who was a wholesaler , and began training in business, but soon he switched to an artistic career. He was accepted into a school affiliated with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1861 and continued his studies at the main institution. In 1867, Salmson won a royal medal that came with a three-year travel grant.

During the study tour Salmson visited Copenhagen , Dusseldorf (1867) and a studio in Paris , that the copying history paintings , as well as genre paintings specialized in the 16th and 17th century. In 1868 Salmson went into business for himself with his own workshop. Because of the Franco-Prussian War , he stayed in Brussels for a few months . From 1870 Salmson was a permanent exhibitor at the Salon de Paris . He visited the Picardy region and his homeland several times for studies . As an elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm, he joined the Opponenterna group, which called for a modernization of artistic education. During one of his visits to Skåne he gave lessons to Prince Eugene .

During this time, Salmsons acquaintances suspected him to have psychological problems. Presumably because of this he committed suicide while staying at a hotel in Lund.

Salmson's paintings were particularly controversial in Sweden. However, his works received several awards and they were bought up by the galleries. The reviews of Salmson's depictions of daily life, which are mainly part of his late work, reflect the dispute between the various art movements of the time. While Fritz von Dardel rejected the portrayals of peasant women as "terribly ugly and dirty motifs", Carl Rupert Nyblom gave the women and girls a striking charm.

gallery

  • The little ear picker

  • Interior with children playing cards

  • Man with turban

  • Boys playing in the shallow water - motif from Trelleborg harbor

  • Portrait of a young girl

swell

Web links

Commons : Hugo Salmson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  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. 439
personal data
SURNAME Salmson, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salmson, Hugo Fredrik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1894
Place of death Lund