Wilhelm von Gegerfelt

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt , portrait in an encyclopedia around 1900

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt , also Vilhelm von Gegerfelt (born November 9, 1844 in Gothenburg , † April 2, 1920 in Torekov , Kristianstads län ), was a Swedish landscape and marine painter . He is one of the Skagen painters and the pioneers of modernism in Scandinavia.

Life

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt, son of the architect and Schinkel student Victor von Gegerfelt (1817–1915), studied painting from 1861 to 1863 at the Copenhagen Art Academy . He then attended the Stockholm Art Academy until 1867 . From 1867 to 1872 he lived in Düsseldorf , but did not study at the art academy there . He was friends with Axel Nordgren there . Then he moved to Paris . Under the influence of Alfred Wahlberg , he began there to acquire the techniques of French mood painting. During this time the Finnish landscape painter Fanny Churberg was his student. Study trips took him to the coasts of France, England and the Netherlands as well as to Italy, Finland and Denmark. In the 1870s he was one of the painters who formed an artist colony in Skagen, Denmark . There the German landscape painter Julius Runge (1843–1922) was his pupil. In the early 1880s he stayed with Georg Pauli and Carl Skånberg (1850-1883) in Venice . He traveled there several times in the following years. From 1885 to 1886 he taught Eugen von Sweden landscape painting, the youngest son of the Swedish King Oskar II. In 1871 he married Wilhelmina Carolina Fogelberg (1837-1882), in 1883 the painter Amanda Gunilda (Gunhild) Baalack (1853-1896) and in 1915 Maria Helena Fex (1860-1936). Gegerfelt was friends with Carl Fredrik Hill , and he was also friends with Ernst Josephson .

Works (selection)

Influenced by techniques from the Düsseldorf school , von Gegerfelt began to turn to naturalistic and impressionistic painting styles in France in the 1870s .

Fra Skagen Østerby, 1874
Shell collectors in Villerville
Reading in the forest
Winter landscape in evening mood
Evening in Venice
Evening light in Venice
Scene at a pier in Venice
Gondolas in Venice

literature

Gegerfelt, Wilhelm von. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 364 ( archive.org ).
Georg Nordensvan : Vilhelm von Gegerfelt . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 9 : Fruktodling – Gossensass . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1908, Sp. 847 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Gegerfelt, Vilhelm . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 336–337 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Gegerfelt, Wilhelm von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 512 .
Gegerfelt, Wilhelm von. In: Erik Gill (Ed.): Svenskt biografiskt lexikon . Volume 16: Fich – Gehlin. Bonnier, Stockholm 1966, p. 780 ( sok.riksarkivet.se ).
Vibeke Röstorp: Gegerfelt, Wilhelm von . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 52, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22792-2 , p. 21.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm von Gegerfelt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt . Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Wilhelm von Gegerfelt . Auction results in 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 and Volume 2, p. 470.

personal data
SURNAME	Gegerfelt, Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gegerfelt, Vilhelm von (Swedish spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish landscape and marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gothenburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 2, 1920
Place of death	Torekov , Kristianstads Lan

[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. 430 and Volume 2, p. 470.