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Richard Bergh
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Author Per Hallstrom and his wife Helga
Painting ID:: 85749
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Richard Bergh
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1858?C1919,Painter, writer and museum director, son of Edvard Bergh. He studied in Stockholm, first at the art school of Edvard Pers?us (1841-90) and from 1878 to 1881 at the Konstakademi, where he met Nils Kreuger and Karl Nordstrem. His early work consists mainly of academically treated scenes from Swedish history and legend. In 1881 he left for France, studying in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Academie Colarossi (1881-4); he made his debut at the Salon of 1883. In 1885, with Ernst Josephson and other members of the Scandinavian artists' colonies in Paris and Grez-sur-Loing, he became one of the main promoters of the Opponenterna, a movement of protest against the conservative attitudes of the Konstakademi; the following year this group formed the Konstnersferbund (Artists' Union), of which Bergh was a leading member throughout his life. |
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Author Per Hallstrom and his wife Helga |
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1904(1904)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 122 x 148.5 cm (48 x 58.5 in)
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| The Executioner Presents John the Bapist's Head to Herod | The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute (detail) ffg | Lady of the Flowers | |
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