Alfred Wahlberg

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Alfred Wahlberg, from the Svenskt Porträttgalleri XX
View Near Vaxholm (1872)

Herman Alfred Leonard Wahlberg[1] (13 February 1834 – 4 October 1906) was a Swedish landscape painter. [2]

Early life

Alfred Wahlberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden.

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts at the same time, although he never became a real student there.[3]

Career

Moonlight, Fjällbacka (1880)

Early career

Wahlberg enjoyed painting and decided to pursue his father's profession. He started by drawing landscapes, and sold a painting for the first time in 1856 to the Swedish Association of Art (Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening).[3]

In 1857, Wahlberg moved to the

Hans Fredrik Gude for a short time, but made most of his paintings on his own. Wahlberg's paintings were sold either in Germany or to Konstföreningen in Sweden. Before returning to Stockholm in 1862, he made a trip to the Netherlands and Belgium to further his art studies.[3] The most well-known paintings Wahlberg made while living in Düsseldorf are Solnedgång i Bohuslän and Vinterlandskap med björnjakt, both of which depict Swedish forest landscapes.[5]

He returned to Stockholm in 1862 and painted Svenskt insjölandskap från Kolmården (1866), which became very famous and was displayed at the National Museum of Arts. After his return to Stockholm in 1862, Wahlberg painted Storm på holländska kusten (1863), Fors i svensk obygd (largely influenced by Andreas Achenbach), Borgruinen Niedeck vid Rhen (1863), Skogsparti från Särö (1865), Hörningsholm i månsken (1866), and Svenskt insjölandskap från Kolmården (1866). The later is a carefully composed view of an infinite forest (Kolmården), a lake, and a summersky. The evening sky and the moonlight is depicted in mild, melting colors. The painting became very famous and was displayed at the National Museum of Arts. Although Wahlberg was still restricted by the limits of his technique, the painting was a large progress in his development as a painter.[3]

Later career

Wahlberg moved to

Paris Salon— both depicting a fishing place in Bohuslän; one of them takes place during the night and one during a sunset. These two paintings mark Wahlberg's transition from a Düsseldorf technique to a then modern French technique. He learned by ease the French school's technique and approach to studies, without imitating the well-known French painters.[3][6]

Wahlberg earned success and was awarded with medals at the Paris Salon in 1870 and 1872; these included the Order of Vasa.[7]

At the

Skåne, Halland, and Värmland.[3] He died on 4 October 1906 in Tranås.[3]

Artistic Style

Wahlberg's fondness of romantic, dreaming, lyrical, and musical atmospheres is reflected in his paintings depicting the evening and the moonlight's play with tones and light.[3] Among his most famous paintings from this period are Fiskläge vid bohuslänska kusten (1869, bought by

Charles XV of Sweden),[4] Utsikt i Södermanland (view of a meadow and a lake in Södermanland, 1870), Landskap i månsken (landscape in moonlight, 1870), Månsken från södra Frankrike (moonlight in southern France, 1870), Nääs (a summer evening, 1871), I Vaxholm (an autumn day in Vaxholm, 1872), I Fontainebleauskogen (Fontainebleau forest, 1874), Maj i Nizza (May in Nice, 1878), Afton på Hallands Väderö (evening at an island, 1880), Fjällbacka (moonlight, 1881), and Svensk björkhage (1882).[3]

Wahlberg's work from the late 1880s and forward includes Stockholms ström (1888), Månsken på Hallands Väderö (1889), Oktobernatt (1893), Popplar (1893), Sol på snö i Marstrand (1901), and Svensk sommarnatt (1901).

Gallery

  • Summer Day at the West Coast of Sweden
    Summer Day at the West Coast of Sweden
  • Summer landscape - motif from Ronneby
    Summer landscape - motif from Ronneby
  • Moonlight mood, Stockholm's inlet
    Moonlight mood, Stockholm's inlet
  • Fishing Boats at Saint Guénolé
    Fishing Boats at Saint Guénolé

References

  1. ^ Warburg, Karl (1881). "Herman Alfred Leonard Wahlberg". Från vår konstverld (in Swedish). Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. pp. 78–84.
  2. ^ "Herman Alfred Leonard Wahlberg". le peintres d’ecouen. 14 February 2017. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Westrin, Th., ed. (1921). "Wahlberg, Herman Alfred Leonard". Nordisk familjebok (in Swedish). Vol. 31. Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks förlags aktiebolag. pp. 322–324. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d Nordensvan, Georg (1928). "Karl XV:s tid. De gamla och de unga". Svensk konst och svenska konstnärer i nittonde århundradet (in Swedish). Vol. II. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag. pp. 125–126.
  5. ^ "Alfred Wahlberg". Svea folkkalender. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  6. ^ "Alfred Wahlberg". Bukowskis. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  7. Gallica

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