Berndt Adolf Lindholm (20 August 1841 – 15 May 1914) was a Finnish landscape painter ( belonging to Swedish speaking population of Finland ). He is usually associated with the
Düsseldorf School
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, but his work also displays early
Impressionist
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elements.
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@ Kulta-Aika He specialized in coastal scenes.
Biography
He took his first drawing lessons from
Johan Knutson
Johan Knutson (28 September 1816, Allerum - 13 September 1899, Helsinki) was a Swedish-born Finnish landscape painter.
Life and work
He studied in Copenhagen in 1838, then in the lithography department at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts ...
in
Porvoo
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.
[Teuvo Termonen, ''Suomalaista postikorttitaidetta'' (Finnish Postcard Art), Suomen Postikorttiyhdistys Apollo 2006, ] From 1856 to 1861, he attended the drawing school of the Finnish Art Society in
Turku
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, where he studied with
Robert Wilhelm Ekman
Robert Wilhelm Ekman (August 13, 1808 – February 19, 1873), R. W. Ekman, was a significant teacher and painter of the Finnish romantic portraits and early national romanticism.
Childhood and Arts Education
Robert Ekman was born in Uusikaupun ...
.
From 1863 to 1865, he attended the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
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then went to the
Academy of Arts in
Karlsruhe
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for one year to continue his studies with
Hans Gude
Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Roma ...
.
His first solo exhibition (Helsinki, 1870) was successful and, three years later, he was invited to become a member of the
Imperial Academy of Arts
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.
From 1873 to 1874, he was in Paris, where his teachers included
Léon Bonnat
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Early life
Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in M ...
.
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@ Virtuuali Vuoksi (Lapeenranta University of Technology). He also came under the influence of
Charles-François Daubigny
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He was also a prolific printmaker, mostly in etchin ...
and the
Barbizon school
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. In 1876, he was awarded a medal at the
Centennial Exposition
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in Philadelphia and received the Finnish State Prize the following year.
That same year he settled in
Gothenburg
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and became Curator of the city art collection in 1878; a position he held until 1900. He also taught at the
Valand Academy and was elected to the
Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
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.
In addition to his painting, he provided illustrations for several works by
Zacharias Topelius
Zachris Topelius (, ; 14 January 181812 March 1898) was a Finnish author, poet, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history.
Given name
Zacharias is his baptismal name, and this ...
.
His work is represented at the
Nationalmuseum
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The museum's operations stretches far beyond the borders of Blasieholmen, the nationalmuseum manag ...
in
Stockholm
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, the
Turku Art Museum,
Åbo Akademi University
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and the
Gothenburg Art Museum
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It claims to be the third largest art museum in Sweden by size of its collection.
Collections
The museum holds the world's finest collect ...
and at museums in
Norrköping
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and
Vänersborg
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.
Selected paintings
Berndt Lindholm - Landscape in Eastern Finland with Mounted Cossacks.jpg, ''Landscape in Eastern Finland with Mounted Cossacks'', 1866
Berndt Lindholm - Vallinkoski - A II 784 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg, ''Vallinkoski Rapid'', 1872
Lindholm, Höyrylaiva jäissä.jpg, ''Steamboat in the Ice'', 1875
Berndt Lindholm - Ship on a Stormy Sea.jpg, ''Ship on a Stormy Sea''
Berndt Lindholm - Corn Harvest (Landscape from Western Sweden) - A I 559 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg, ''Oat Harvest on the Hisingen Island'', 1878
Berndt Lindholm - View of Ladoga.jpg, ''View of Ladoga'', 1878
Berndt Lindholm - Forest Interior - A II 1708 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg, ''Forest Interior'', 1878
Lindholm, Helsinki Sörnäisistä nähtynä.jpg, ''Helsinki seen from Sörnäinen
Sörnäinen ( sv, Sörnäs; ''Sörkkä'' or ''Sörkka'' in Helsinki slang) is a neighbourhood in the city of Helsinki, Finland.
Sörnäinen is located a little more than one kilometre north from the coastal centre of Helsinki, near the district ...
'', 1881
Berndt Lindholm - Rantakuva - A II 772 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg, ''Shore Scene'', 1882
Berndt Lindholm - Hämäläinen maisema (1896).jpg, ''Landscape from Häme
Häme (; Swedish: ''Tavastland'', Latin: ''Tavastia'') is the name of a geographical region in Finland, associated with the Tavastians, or Häme people (''hämäläiset''), a subgroup of the Finnish people. The precise area referred to can vary ...
'', 1896
Berndt Lindholm - Norwegian Landscape - A II 931 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg, ''Norwegian Landscape'', 1897
Berndt Lindholm - Longing.jpg, ''Longing''
Lindholm, Berndt Kalliorinne mäntymetsässä.jpg, ''Rocky Hillside in a Pine Forest''
See also
*
Finnish art
Finnish art started to form its individual characteristics in the 19th century, when romantic nationalism began to rise in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.
Prehistoric art
Marks of human activity in Finland has found in Susiluola, Krist ...
References
Further reading
*Jüri Kokkonen, Brita Löflund: ''Berndt Lindholm'' (exhibition catalog) Åbo konstmuseum, 1995
External links
ArtNet: More works by LindholmKansallisgalleria: More works by Lindholm
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1841 births
1914 deaths
People from Loviisa
Finnish male painters
19th-century Finnish painters
20th-century Finnish painters
Landscape painters
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni
Finnish emigrants to Sweden
Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg
People from Gothenburg
19th-century Swedish painters
20th-century Swedish painters
Swedish male painters
Swedish-speaking Finns
19th-century Swedish male artists
20th-century Swedish male artists
19th-century Finnish male artists
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