Oscar Törnå

Oscar Emil Törnå (born October 18, 1842 in Kättilstad, Östergötland , Sweden , † June 3, 1894 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish landscape painter .

Life

Summer landscape near Fontainebleau , 1876, Swedish National Museum

Summer landscape on Justerö , 1892

After completing a commercial apprenticeship, Törnå began studying painting at the age of 20 at the Stockholm Art Academy , where he turned to landscape painting and in 1870 won a royal medal for a Nordic landscape in the morning light. From 1873 he lived in Düsseldorf , where he got to know the environment of the Düsseldorf School of Painting until 1874 . Then he went on to Paris . In the landscapes near Fontainebleau he operated open-air painting . In 1882/1883 the landscape painter Edvard Westman was his pupil. He was also the teacher of Alfred Maurits Bergström (1869–1930) and Carl Flodmann (1863–1888).

literature

Törnå, Oskar Emil . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 30 : Tromsdalstind – Urakami . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1920, Sp. 802-803 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Törnå, Oscar Emil . In: Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen, Palle Raunkjær (ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 24 : Tyskland – Vertere . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1928, p. 132 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Törnå, Oscar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 244 .
Törnå, Oskar Emil (Törnå, Oscar Emil; Törnå, Oscar). In: General Artist Lexicon. Bio-bibliographical Index A-Z . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2000, Volume 9, p. 745.

Web links

Commons : Oscar Törnå - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Oskar Emil Törnå . Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

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. 441.

personal data
SURNAME	Törnå, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Törnå, Oscar Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kättilstad, Östergötland , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1894
Place of death	Stockholm

[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. 441.