Per Södermark
Johan Per Södermark (born June 3, 1822 in Mossebro near Karlsborg , † November 26, 1889 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Södermark, son of the lieutenant colonel and portrait painter Olof Johan Södermark and his wife Maria Charlotta Hazelius, began a career in the military after receiving some basic artistic training from their father. In 1843 he became a second lieutenant , at the same time he studied painting at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm . In 1845 his father took him to Italy. They returned to Sweden via France in 1848. Then he resigned from military service. In 1852 he went to Düsseldorf , where he continued his painting training under Karl Ferdinand Sohn , Rudolf Wiegmann and Heinrich Mücke at the Düsseldorf Art Academy until 1854 . From 1853 to 1854 he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . From 1855 to 1856 he attended Thomas Couture's private school in Paris . He then went back to Stockholm, where he established himself as a successful portrait painter and later became a member of the art academy. In 1863 his son Per († 1952) was born.
Per Södermark created portraits, interiors and figurative compositions that were thematically and stylistically influenced by the approach of the Düsseldorf School of Painting .
Works (selection)
- Italian peasant woman , 1847: Norrköping, Art Museum
- Portrait of NJO Blommér , oil, 1848, Lund, Lundsuniversitets konstmuseum
- Portrait Werner Holmberg , 1853, Helsinki, Ateneum
- Portrait of Kateřina Smetanová, née Kolářová , 1858
- Portrait of Bedřich Smetana , 1859
literature
- Södermark, Johan Per. In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon , Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 495 ( digitized version )
- Johan Per Södermark (2nd John Per S.) . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 28 : Syrten-vikarna – Tidsbestämning . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1919, Sp. 182 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Tomas Björk: Södermark, Johan Per. In: Hans Paffrath , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Volume 3, Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 291; Fig .: Portrait of Gustaf Werner Holmberg , 1853.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, studies and stay 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. 440
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Södermark, Per |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Södermark, Johan Per (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish portrait painter of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mossebro near Karlsborg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1889 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |