Victor Forssell
Victor Reinhold Forssell (born June 19, 1846 in Sala , Västmanland , Sweden ; † August 16, 1931 in the parish of Nacka near Stockholm ) was a Swedish landscape , animal and genre painter .
Life
Forssell, the illegitimate child of an official of the Sala silver mine and the miller's daughter Beata Forssell, attended Sala elementary school from 1855 to 1861. From 1865 he studied painting at the Stockholm Art Academy . There he was a student of the landscape painters Edvard Bergh and Per Daniel Holm . In 1877 he went on a study trip at his own expense, which took him to various European art centers, first to Düsseldorf and Paris , then also to London and Antwerp . Back in his home country, he traveled to southern and central Sweden for summer studies, and to Gotland several times in the 1880s . In the 1890s he made trips to Denmark , Norway and Great Britain . In 1897 his mother, with whom he had lived on the outskirts of Stockholm, died. In 1902 Forssell received an artist fee from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to teach the "animal scenery in the landscape". These classes took place in Skansen and the Stockholm area. In 1912 he moved to the Stora Sickla manor near Stockholm (in what is now Nacka municipality ). After an accident that he suffered in the 1920s, he was only able to move on crutches. Supervised by the academy, he moved to the Solsunda nursing home , also located near Stockholm , where he died at the age of 85.
As an admirer of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and the direction of theosophy she founded , Forssell cultivated a pantheistic worldview. Forssell mainly painted Swedish landscapes, often motifs from the area around Stockholm, which he portrayed as paysage intimate or as realistic street scenes.
After the First World War, Forssell was almost forgotten when a joint exhibition at Liljevalchs Konsthall brought his landscape painting, which today has a firm place in the history of Swedish open-air painting, back to public awareness in 1921. After his death, Forssell was honored by several memorial exhibitions.
literature
- Forssell, Viktor Reinhold . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 220 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Viggo Loos: Victor R. Forssell . In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , Volume 16 (1964–1966), p. 338.
Web links
- Victor Forssell , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Victor Forssell , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 430
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forssell, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Forssell, Victor Reinhold (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish landscape, animal and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sala , Västmanland , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1931 |
| Place of death | Parish of Nacka near Stockholm |