Karl Emanuel Jansson

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Karl Emanuel Jansson , posthumous portrait by Fredrik Ahlstedt , 1879

Karl Emanuel Jansson (born July 7, 1846 in Finström , Åland , Grand Duchy of Finland ; † June 1, 1874 in Jomala , Åland, Grand Duchy of Finland) was a Finnish-Swedish genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Åland bondbrud (Farmer's Bride from Åland) , 1869

Jansson, the second oldest of seven children of the farmer Jan Jansson, received his first drawing lessons from the church painter G. Kjellgren, as his assistant he worked after primary school. The pastor of Finström, Frans Petter von Knorring (1792–1875), sent samples of his drawing skills at the end of 1859 to the Finnish Art Association, which praised Jansson's work by return mail and gave a grant so that Jansson could attend the art school of the Art Association in Turku under the direction of Robert Wilhelm Ekman was able to train further. After making great strides there in two years, Jansson moved to Stockholm in the fall of 1862 , where he enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts . While he received harsh reviews for pictures he sent home, his first major work, The Prodigal Son , won an award in Stockholm. In 1867 he finished his studies with a commendation. Then he managed to secure a state scholarship for a trip to Düsseldorf . He traveled there in the fall of 1868. From 1868 to 1870 he took private lessons in Düsseldorf with the history painter Gustav Stever and with the genre painter Benjamin Vautier . There, at the age of 23, he created his most famous work, the painting Åland bondbrud (Farmer's Bride from Åland) . In the summer of 1870 he returned to Åland and stayed a year before going back to Düsseldorf, where he fell ill with tuberculosis . The illness caused him to travel to Rome in March 1872 and a little later to Davos and Meran for a cure . When his health barely improved there, too, he returned to Åland via Düsseldorf in the late summer of 1873, where he died in Jomala in 1874. Shortly before his death, he learned that he had been awarded a prize for the paintings Klöveress and Talmannen , with which he had presented the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 . The Imperial Art Academy of St. Petersburg had also appointed him a member.

Works (selection)

Ahvenanmaalaisia ​​Merimiehiä Pelaamassa korttia Kajuutassa (Sailors Playing Cards) , 1871
  • The lost Son
  • Åland bondbrud (farmer's bride from Åland)
  • Pojan Hiuksia Leikataan , 1867
  • Ahvenanmaalaisia ​​Merimiehiä Pelaamassa korttia Kajuutassa (Sailors Playing Cards) , 1871
  • En slant i håven
  • Kloeveress
  • Talmannen
  • Vanha Lukkari (The Old Sexton) , 1874

literature

  • Thieme-Becker , Volume XVIII (1925), p. 409 f.
  • Bertel Hintze: Karl Emanuel Jansson: en åländsk målare (1846–1874) . Almqvist & Wicksell, Stockholm 1926

Web links

Commons : Karl Emanuel Jansson  - Collection of pictures, 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. 433
personal data
SURNAME Jansson, Karl Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish-Swedish genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Finström , Åland , Grand Duchy of Finland
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1874
Place of death Jomala , Åland, Grand Duchy of Finland