Nils Forsberg
| Nils Forsberg | |
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| File:Galle Kallela portrait of Nils Forsberg.jpgGalle Kallela portrait of Nils Forsberg.jpg Nils Forsberg portrayed by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1888) | |
| Born | Nils Forsberg 17 December 1842[1] Riseberga, Malmö |
| 💀Died | 8 November 1934 (aged 91)[1] Helsingborg8 November 1934 (aged 91)[1] |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Swedish |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Painter |
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Nils Forsberg (17 December 1842 – 8 November 1934) was a Swedish painter who lived and worked in Paris for much of his career.[2]
Life
Forsberg was born in a small village called Riseberga, in the province of Scania.[3][1] The son of a peasant, he spent his early years in farming, then was apprenticed to a house-painter at Göteborg.[3] He made a statue of Minerva which procured for him a government stipend that enabled him to go to Paris in 1867.[3] In Paris he was a student in the atelier of Léon Bonnat.[4][3][5] Art historian Richard Muther would later write that Forsberg "became the Swedish Bonnat."[6] The siege of Paris, during which he enlisted in the Ambulance Department, afforded him opportunities for studying and sketching the scenes that he observed.[3] In 1877 he exhibited Family of Acrobats before the Circus Director, now in the Gothenburg Museum of Art.[3] This work, which typifies Forsberg's commitment to social reform, shows the influence of the French Realists in its depiction of child labor.[2]
In 1889 he received the gold medal at the Salon for his painting The Death of a Hero,[5][6] now in the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm.[7] The culmination of his ambition to renew traditional history painting with a vigorous contemporary realism, it took him several years to complete, and was inspired by his experiences during the Franco-Prussian War.[2] Afterwards he devoted himself more especially to historical subjects.[3] In 1904 he returned to Sweden, where he lived in Helsingborg.[2] He died in Helsingborg on 8 November 1934.[1][2]
He had a son, Nils Forsberg the younger (b 1870), who was also a painter.[2]
Permanent collections
In total, 25 of Forsberg's works are held by the Nationalmuseum.[8] Several of his works, including the 1900 painting Gustaf II Adolf before the Battle of Lützen,[9] are held by the Gothenburg Museum of Art.[10]
Gallery
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A Communard (1871) Nationalmuseum
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Family of Acrobats before the Circus Director (1877)
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Gustaf II Adolf before the Battle of Lutzen of 1632, in which the king died. Gothenburg Museum of Art, 1900
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Stenbocks kurir (1911)
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Nils Forsberg self portrait (1882)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Oscar Harald Wieselgren (1944). Svenska män och kvinnor: biografisk uppslagsbok. Bonnier. p. 555. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Gunnarsson, T. (2003). "Forsberg, Nils, the elder". Grove Art Online.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Forsberg, Nils". In Gilman, Daniel Coit; Peck, Harry Thurston; Colby, Frank Moore (1907). The New International Encyclopædia. 8. Dodd, Mead, and Company. p. 58. Search this book on
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- ↑ Fae Brauer (8 July 2014). Rivals and Conspirators: The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 92. ISBN 978-1-4438-6370-4. Search this book on
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Nils Forsberg". Benezit Dictionary of Artists (2006). ISBN 9780199773787.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Richard Muther (1896). The History of Modern Painting. Henry and Company. p. 355. Search this book on
- ↑ Treasures of Swedish Art: From Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. Forum. 1950. Search this book on
- ↑ "Nationalmuseum - Nils Forsberg". collection.nationalmuseum.se.
- ↑ Jonas Jonson (2016). Nathan Soderblom: Called to Serve. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8028-7308-8. Search this book on
- ↑ "Göteborgs konstmuseum - Skiss till Akrobatfamilj inför cirkusdirektören". Gothenburg Museum of Art. (click "Nils Forsberg" for additional artworks and biography)
Further reading
- "Forsberg, Nils". Vem är det (1944). (in Swedish)
- "Forsberg, 2. Nils". Nordisk familjebok (1908). (in Swedish)
- "Nils Forsberg". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (1964-1966). (in Swedish)
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