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 Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

, but his work also displays early

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

elements.Brief biography
@ 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 ...

Porvoo Porvoo (; sv, Borgå ; la, Borgoa) is a city and a municipality in the Uusimaa region of Finland, situated on the southern coast about east of the city border of Helsinki and about from the city centre. Porvoo was one of the six medieval to ...

.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 Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...

, 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 The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová, ...

then went to the Academy of Arts in

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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 The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...

. From 1873 to 1874, he was in Paris, where his teachers included

Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in M ...

.Brief biography
@ Virtuuali Vuoksi (Lapeenranta University of Technology). He also came under the influence of

Charles-François Daubigny Charles-François Daubigny ( , , ; 15 February 181719 February 1878) was a French painter, one of the members of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism. He was also a prolific printmaker, mostly in etchin ...

and the

Barbizon school The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870. It takes its name f ...

. In 1876, he was awarded a medal at the

Centennial Exposition The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair to be held in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the ...

in Philadelphia and received the Finnish State Prize the following year. That same year he settled in

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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 The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts ( sv, Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna), commonly called the Royal Academy, is located in Stockholm, Sweden. An independent organization that promotes the development of painting, sculpture, archite ...

. 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

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, the Turku Art Museum,

Åbo Akademi University Åbo Akademi University ( sv, Åbo Akademi , ) is the only exclusively Swedish language multi-faculty university in Finland (or anywhere outside Sweden). It is located mainly in Turku (Åbo is the Swedish name of the city) but has also activiti ...

and the

Gothenburg Art Museum Gothenburg Museum of Art ( sv, Göteborgs konstmuseum) is located at Götaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden. 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 Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Linköp ...

and

Vänersborg Vänersborg () is a locality and the seat of Vänersborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 23,882 inhabitants (out of a municipal total of 39,591) Until 1997 it was the capital of Älvsborg County, which was dissolved in 1998. Sin ...

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''

References

External links

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Biography

Selected paintings

See also

References

Further reading

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