Pehr Hilleström
Pehr Hilleström the Elder (born November 18, 1732 in Väddö near Stockholm , † August 13, 1816 in Stockholm) was a Swedish painter .
From 1743 he was apprenticed to Johan Filip Korn and at the Stockholm Academy with Guillaume Thomas Taraval (1701–1750) and Jean Eric Rehn . He also learned from the fan painter Christian Fehmer and the wallpaper weaver Pierre Louis Duru (died 1753). He then worked for ten years at the tapestry factory . In 1757/58 he studied tapestry production in Paris at state expense, but also painting with Jean Siméon Chardin and François Boucher . After that he worked as a weaver again, and it was not until he was about forty that he turned seriously to painting. In 1773 he became a member of the Stockholm Academy, where he became a professor in 1777, and court painter in 1776.
He left behind an extensive oeuvre with over 1,100 paintings. Among them are many pictures from everyday life in Sweden at that time. One of his preferences were night scenes with candlelight, he painted pictures of industrial plants and mines, farmers and still lifes similar to Chardin. There are official pictures of royal receptions and visits, of parades, opera and theater performances and the jousting in the park of Drottningholm Palace, known as the carousel .
His son Carl Petter Hilleström (1760-1812) was also a painter.
gallery
Self-portrait, 1771
Company in a farmhouse parlor
A girl ladles soup into a bowl
Carousel in Drottningholm
kitchen
Two girls by the stream
Morning toilet
Still life
Hedwig von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf arrives in Stockholm, 1774
Public banquet in Stockholm Palace (public taffel) on New Year's Day 1779
Celebration after the victory in Svensksund in 1790 ( Second sea battle near Ruotsinsalmi ).
literature
- L.Østby, Kindler's Malereilexikon, dtv 1982
- Osvald Sirén Pehr Hilleström the Elder Ä. Väfvaren och målaren, hans lif och värk , Stockholm 1900 (Sirén did his doctorate on Hilleström)
- G. Cederblom Pehr Hilleström som Kulturskildrare , 2 volumes, Uppsala 1927, 1929
- A. Beijer, G. Hilleström Gustaviansk teater, skildrad av Pehr Hilleström , Stockholm 1947
- S. Rönnow Pehr Hilleström och hans bruks- och bergverksmålningar , Stockholm 1929
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hilleström, Pehr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1732 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Väddö near Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1816 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |