Per Wickenberg
Per Wickenberg , also Pehr Wickenberg or Petter Gabriel Wickenberg (born October 1, 1812 in Malmö , † December 19, 1846 in Pau ), was a Swedish painter who lived in France since 1838.
Life
Per Gabriel Wickenberg, son of the flagjunker Jonas Wickenberg and his wife Katarina Isberg, graduated from school in Malmö and studied painting under Johan Gustaf Sandberg at the Stockholm Art Academy in the first half of the 1830s . First he took on bucolic scenes and motifs from mythology - supported by the draftsman and lithographer Michael Gustaf Anckarsvärd (1792–1878) .
In 1836 Wickenberg cured an eye disease in Bad Teplitz . He then stayed in Berlin for a year . With Karl Wilhelm Gropius he worked his way into decorative painting and studied the works of old Dutch painting hanging in the Berlin museums . In the fall of 1837 he went to Paris. His Nordic winter landscape received a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1838 in the Louvre. In 1839 the painting Eisangeln at the salon was a great success. Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinguer bought the picture. Wickenberg became a Knight of the Legion of Honor . The painter was awarded the title of Agré by the Stockholm Art Academy. He toured Belgium and Holland in 1839. In 1842 he became a member of the Swedish Academy. Also in 1842 he was decorated with the Wasa Order in Sweden .
Thanks to the growing Parisian customer base, Wickenberg moved out of his modest studio in the Rue Saint-Honoré and moved into a more comfortable one in the Rue de la Bienfaisance in Paris. Sick of tuberculosis , he spent the winter of 1844 in Nice and in the autumn of 1845 went to Pau.
literature
- John Kruse : Petter Gabriel Wickenberg, 1812–1846, ett konstnärporträtt . Ivar Haeggström, Stockholm 1901 ( archive.org ).
- Wickenberg, Per Gabriel . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 719-720 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Eskil Cronlund: Wickenberg, Petter Gabriel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 391 .
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Remarks
- ↑ An Agré is not yet an academician in Sweden, but he is a candidate.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wickenberg, Per |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wickenberg, Pehr; Wickenberg, Petter Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malmo |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1846 |
| Place of death | Pau |