Karl Romin
Karl Alfred Romin , also Carl Romin (born December 29, 1858 in Visby , Gotland , Sweden , † 1922 ibid), was a Swedish landscape painter and art teacher.
Life
Romin, the second of four children of the tanner Carl Petter Romin (1832-1901) and his wife Catharina Helena Eriksson (1820-1900), studied from 1882 in Uppsala . He then moved to Düsseldorf , where he was enrolled at the Royal Prussian Art Academy from 1884 to 1885 . Heinrich Lauenstein taught him there . He also had his compatriot Axel Tallberg instruct him in the techniques of etching . He earned a reputation as a good cartoonist . In 1886 he attended the Stockholm Art School . He then worked as an art teacher at the Visby Technical School(Visby tekniska skola) . He went down in Gotland's history as one of the initiators of the seaside resort Snäckgärdsbaden .
Romin's brother Gustaf also became a painter.
literature
- John Kruse : Karl Alfred Romin . In: Svenskt Portraittgalleri , Volume 14, Chapter XX: Arkitekter, bildhuggare, målare, tecknare, grafiker, mönsterritare och konstindustrialister . Stockholm 1901, p. 141
Web links
- Carl Alfred Romin , genealogical data sheet in the portal tng.omans.se
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. 438
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| SURNAME | Romin, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Romin, Karl Alfred (full name); Romin, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish landscape painter and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Visby , Gotland , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1922 |
| Place of death | Visby , Gotland , Sweden |