Peter Eskilsson

Peter Eskilsson , also Per Eskilson (born September 28, 1820 in Billeberga , Skåne , † January 29, 1872 in Bärmö near Stockholm ), was a Swedish genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

At a young age Eskilsson served as a sergeant in the Götaland Artillery Regiment, then he worked as an accountant for a poor house in Gothenburg . From 1850 to 1853 he studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm . In 1853 he went - like many other aspiring Scandinavian painters - to Düsseldorf , where he stayed until 1859. There he first found a place in the studio of the Norwegian painter Adolph Tidemand . In 1856 his compatriot Bengt Nordenberg gave him private lessons. Eskilsson's ironic and anecdotal descriptions of Swedish folk life in the style of Düsseldorf genre painting earned him the nickname “ Spitzweg Sweden”.

Works (selection)

Wedding preparations , 1857

The lecture , 1856
Wedding preparations , 1857
The painters on a study trip , 1867

literature

Eskilsson, Peter . In: Nils Linder, John Rosén, Theodor Westrin, BF Olsson (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 4 : Duplicator Folkvandringen . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1881, Sp. 715 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Eskilsson, Peter . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 31 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Peter Eskilsson - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Peter Eskilsson . Auction results in the portal artnet.de

Individual evidence

^ Richard Muther : History of painting in the nineteenth century . Third volume, Paderborn 1894, p. 269, reprint of the original by Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn, ISBN 978-3-95491-201-8 ( Google Books )
^ Bettina Baumgärtel : The painters on a study trip, 1867 . 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 2, p. 58 (Catalog No. 34)
↑ Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 1, p. 430

personal data
SURNAME	Eskilsson, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Eskilson, Per
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Billeberga , Skåne
DATE OF DEATH	January 29, 1872
Place of death	Bärmö near Stockholm

[1] Richard Muther : History of painting in the nineteenth century . Third volume, Paderborn 1894, p. 269, reprint of the original by Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn, ISBN 978-3-95491-201-8 ( Google Books )

[2] Bettina Baumgärtel : The painters on a study trip, 1867 . 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 2, p. 58 (Catalog No. 34)

[3] Bettina Baumgärtel, Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 1, p. 430