Sofie Ribbing

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Sofie Ribbing , self-portrait, 1865, Uffizi

Sophia Amalia Ribbing (born March 6, 1835 in Adelöv, today Tranås , Småland , Sweden ; † December 7, 1894 in Christiania , Norway ) was a Swedish portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Ribbing, offspring of the Swedish noble family Ribbing , was one of seven children of the district judge and landowner Per Arvid Persson Ribbing (1794-1865) and his wife Carolina Augusta Ehrencrona (1804-1875). The son of her aunt Ebba Sofia Ribbing (1790-1883) was the Swedish landscape painter Olof Hermelin . In the 1850s she attended an art school in Stockholm . She then trained with Karl Ferdinand Sohn in Düsseldorf until the end of the 1850s , then until the 1860s in Paris with Jean-Baptiste-Ange Tissier (1814–1876) and in Brussels with Louis Gallait . Around the mid-1860s she had a studio in the rooms of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen . During this time, she advised the Danish painter Catherine Engelhart to also train in Brussels and Düsseldorf. Ribbing lived for a long time in London , in 1871 in The Hague , and in the 1880s together with Agnes Börjesson in Rome . Ribbing was considered very beautiful, but she remained unmarried all her life.

Ribbing took part in the art exhibitions at the Stockholm Academy . In 1871 she exhibited in Amsterdam , in 1872 and 1888 at the Royal Danish Academy of Art , and also at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her main work, at the same time one of the main works of Swedish painting of the 19th century, is the double portrait drawing boys (Ritande gossar), created in the tradition of the Düsseldorf School in 1864 .

Works (selection)

Drawing boys (Ritande gossar) , 1864
  • Rembrandt's self-portrait , copy, 66.5 × 53.5 cm, Göteborgs Konstmuseum
  • Male portrait , copy after Andrea del Sarto, 54 × 46 cm, Göteborgs Konstmuseum
  • Self-portrait , study around 1861, National Museum Oslo
  • Study head (Carminello of the Spanish Steps) , Rome, approx. 1860/62, 55 × 44 cm. Oslo, National Gallery
  • Ritande gossar (boys drawing) , 1864, oil / canvas, 91.5 × 79 cm, signed: Sophie Ribbing 1864, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, inv.no. GKM 0046
  • Self-Portrait , 1865, Uffizi Gallery Florence Uffizi Gallery Florence
  • Den öfvergifna (The Forsaken) , 1869, Göteborgs Konstmuseum
  • Portrait of Arnoldina Wilhelmina Stratenus , 1871, private collection
  • En neapolitansk hyrde, der spiller på sækkepibe (Neapolitan shepherd playing the bagpipe) , 1872, oil / canvas, 68 × 58 cm (color illus .: artnet)
  • Portrait of the composer Nils Ravnskilde , 1876, Hillerød, Det Nationalhistoriske Museum på Fredriksborg
  • Den lille honsepigen , 1882, oil / canvas, 117 × 90 cm (color illus .: artnet)
  • Portrait of Helena Nyblom, née Roed , Stockholm, Swedish National Museum
  • Italian girl , 45.5 × 31.5 cm; unmarked. Oslo, National Gallery
  • Neapolitanska tiggarbarn (Neapolitan beggar child)
  • Fågelboet (bird's nest)

literature

  • Ribbing, Sofie Amalia . In: John Rosén, Theodor Westrin (ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 13 : Pontin – Ruete . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1889, Sp. 1053 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Sofia Amalia Ribbing . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 23 : Retzius – Ryssland . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1916, Sp. 149 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Gustav Keckeis, Blanche Christine Olschak (edit.): Lexicon of women . Volume II, Zurich 1954.
  • Svenskt Konstnärs Lexicon . Volume V, Allhems Förlag, Malmö 1967 (fig.).
  • The social reality of children in the fine arts , Berlin 1979, exhibition catalog No. 194, illustration p. 370.
  • Chris Petteys: Dictionary of Women Artists . Boston (MA) 1985.
  • Svenska constable. Biografisk handbok . Väbo förlag, 1987, p. 436, Libris 7765108.
  • Carin Österberg and others: Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare . Signum, Lund 1990, ISBN 91-87896-03-6 .
  • Thomas Björk, Carsten Roth: Ribbing Sofia (Sofie, Sophie), Amalia . In: Hans Paffrath , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule . Volume 3. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 138, illustration: “Drawing boys”, 1864.

Web links

Commons : Sofie Ribbing  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  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. 438
  2. ↑ Cathinca Amyot: In Search Of My “Goddess.” In: The Wide World Magazine , 1899, pp. 517 ff. Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  3. ↑ Inventory catalog 1979, No. 282
  4. ↑ Inventory catalog 1979, No. 283
  5. ↑ 1973 inventory catalog, No. 329
  6. ↑ Inventory catalog 1979, No. 46
  7. ↑ Jane Fortune, Linda Falcone: Invisibile Women. Forgotten Artist of Florence . The Florentine Press, Prato / Toskana 2009/2010, ISBN 978-88-902434-5-5 , p. 215 ( Google Books )
  8. ^ N. Inv .: 1975: Ribbing, Sophia Amalia . Inventory sheet in the portal polomuseale.firenze.it
  9. ↑ 1973 inventory catalog, No. 331
personal data
SURNAME Ribbing, Sofie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ribbing, Sophia Amalia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish portrait painter and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelöv, now Tranås , Småland, Sweden
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1894
Place of death Christiania , Norway