Thorsten Waenerberg

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Thorsten Adolf Waenerberg (born May 25, 1846 in Porvoo , Grand Duchy of Finland , † February 26, 1917 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish landscape and marine painter from the Düsseldorf School , art teacher and curator .

Life

Felled tree , 1871

Waenerberg was born the son of theologian Gabriel Mauritz Waenerberg (1818-1887) and his wife Agata Sofia Aschan. His sister was Elin Kallio (1859–1927), the "mother of Finnish women's gymnastics". In 1864 he stayed as a pupil of Ferdinand von Wright in Haminalahti near Kuopio . Until 1865 he was initially a student at the drawing school of the Finnish Art Association. Then he went to Karlsruhe , where he studied with Hans Fredrik Gude . In 1866 he moved to Düsseldorf , where he stayed until 1873. He was initially a student of Karl Müller at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1868/1869 he also attended Oswald Achenbach's landscape class there . He stayed in Paris for a short time . In the years 1880/1881 he stayed in The Hague and Amsterdam . Waenerberg painted landscapes in the Netherlands, France, Finland and Norway. He was awarded a bronze medal at the General Finnish Industrial and Art Exhibition in 1876. From 1874 to 1887 he worked as a teacher and director of the Turku drawing school , and from 1887 to 1914 as curator of the collections of the Finnish Art Association.

Works (selection)

Beach scene from the Netherlands , 1890
  • Felled tree , 1871
  • Beach scene from the Netherlands , 1890
  • Landscape from Suursaari , 1894
  • Summer in a village , 1912
  • Landscape with Birch Trees , 1914

literature

  • Waenerberg, Thorsten . In: Arvid Ahnfelt (Hrsg.): Europe's constituent: alfabetiskt ordade biografier öfver vårt århundrades förnämsta artister . Oskar L. Lamms Förlag, Stockholm 1887, p. 613 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Thorsten Waenerberg  - Collection of images, 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. 442.
  2. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1970, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147.
personal data
SURNAME Waenerberg, Thorsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waenerberg, Thorsten Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish landscape and marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Porvoo , Grand Duchy of Finland
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1917
Place of death Helsinki