Viktor Helander
Sven Viktor Helander (born August 12, 1839 in Gothenburg , Sweden ; † September 11, 1901 in Düsseldorf ) was a Swedish genre painter from the Düsseldorf School , book collector and Swedish-Norwegian consul in Düsseldorf.
Life
Helander was the son of the Gothenburg wholesaler Carl Viktor Helander (1812-1894) and his wife Carolina Maria (née Wallin). He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen in 1857 and at the Stockholm Art Academy from 1857 to 1861 . After 1861 he went to Düsseldorf and took private lessons with the Swiss genre painter Benjamin Vautier . From 1862/1863 until his death Helander was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . In 1874 he married Ida Emilie Bertha Schulz, née Möller (1834–1910), the widow of the Essen merchant and factory owner Eduard Schulz (1821–1866). From 1878 he worked as the Swedish-Norwegian consul for the Rhine Province and the Province of Westphalia . As such, he resided in 1879 at Goltsteinstrasse 11 in Düsseldorf. The Stockholm Academy accepted him as Agré .
Helander created portraits and genre pictures in the style of the Düsseldorf School. His further interest was book art . He introduced his step-daughter Ida (1863–1917), from 1888 wife of the industrialist Guido Schoeller (1850–1898) from Düren, to bibliophilia . The surveyor Adolf Ferdinand Helander (1820–1905) was his uncle.
literature
- Helander, Sven Victor . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923.
- Helander, slicker. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon . Volume 18: Hallardt – Heurgren. Bonnier, Stockholm 1971, p. 554 ( sok.riksarkivet.se ).
- Helander, Sven Viktor. In: Svenska konstnärer. Biografisk handbok. Nyblom, Uppsala 1980, ISBN 91-85040-31-2 , p. 180 ( runeberg.org ).
- Svenska constable. Biografisk handbok. Väbo förlag, Stockholm 1987, p. 203.
Web links
- Sven Victor Helander , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Thure Nyman: 2. Helander, Sven Victor . In: Svenskahaben och kvinnor: biografisk uppslagsbok . tape 3 : G-H . Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm 1946, p. 390 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- ^ Georg Nordensvan : Helander, Sven Viktor . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 11 : Harrisburg – Hypereides . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1909, Sp. 284 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 431
- ↑ Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf , 1888, p. 88
- ^ Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf , 1879, p. 40
- ↑ Albert Cederblad: Gothenburg. Skisserade Skildringar af Sveriges andra stad i våra dagar. Göteborg 1884, p. 17 ( runeberg.org ).
- ^ Son of the industrialist Felix Heinrich Schoeller
- ^ Journal for book lovers . Velhagen & Klasing, Leipzig 1918, Volume 9, Part 2, p. 241.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helander, Viktor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Helander, Sven Viktor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish genre painter of the Düsseldorf School, book collector and Swedish-Norwegian consul in Düsseldorf |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gothenburg , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1901 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |