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Gunnar Brynolf Wennerberg (12 August 1866, Otterstads Parish, Västergötland - 13 March 1950, Bad Aibling) was a Swedish-German painter and graphic designer. He is sometimes referred to as "The Younger", to distinguish him from his father of the same name.
/ref> In 1911, their second daughter, Ellen, died of tuberculosis. Helene was unable to recover from the loss, and their marriage broke up. She died suddenly in 1912, at the age of forty, shortly after Brynolf and their surviving daughters had been granted Bavarian citizenship. After that, he decided to leave Munich. He travelled to the Isle of Wight, with his youngest daughter, Charlotte, and Anny von Řezníček, widow of the artist Ferdinand von Řezníček, whom he married there. His oldest daughter, Astrid, later joined them. They stayed for only a short time before settling in Paris. When World War I broke out, they were staying at their summer house near Mammern, Switzerland. They were unable to return to France, and all of their belongings there were lost. From 1915, he lived in Bad Aibling and worked in a studio that was formerly occupied by the portrait painter, Wilhelm Leibl. During the war, he contributed drawings to the humor magazine, ''
@ the Zeitschriften Datenbank In the 1920s and 30s, he produced advertising materials, which featured young, slender women, with a facial expression that became known as the "Wennerberg Smile". For most of his final years, he concentrated on paintings, rather than graphic design. Some of them were simple landscapes of Upper Bavaria.
File:Brynolf Wennerberg Beim Ankleiden (Käthe Berger).jpg, Getting Dressed
File:Brynolf Wennerberg Tänzerinnen c1935-1940.jpg, Dancers
File:Brynolf Wennerberg Münchner Fasching 1939.jpg, Fasching in Munich
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Brynolf Wennerberg website
home page
Biography and paintings
@ Gailer Fine Art, Chiemsee
an exhibition in Fürstenfeldbruck
''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (2013): "Obsession für schöne und elegante Frauen"
a review of the exhibition by Florian J. Haamann {{DEFAULTSORT:Wennerberg, Brynolf 1866 births 1950 deaths Swedish painters 19th-century German painters German illustrators German poster artists Swedish emigrants Immigrants to the German Empire People from Västergötland 20th-century German painters
Gunnar Brynolf Wennerberg (12 August 1866, Otterstads Parish, Västergötland - 13 March 1950, Bad Aibling) was a Swedish-German painter and graphic designer. He is sometimes referred to as "The Younger", to distinguish him from his father of the same name.
Biography
He was born into a landed, aristocratic family. His father,Gunnar Brynolf Wennerberg
Gunnar Brynolf Wennerberg (16 August 1823, Lidköping - 3 October 1894, Göteborg) was a Swedish painter of the Düsseldorf School and a major landowner. He specialized in animal paintings (mostly horses) and genre scenes.
Biography
His father, ...
, was an artist who specialized in animal paintings. Art salons were often held at their home. In 1885, he began his studies at an arts and crafts school in Stockholm. The following year, he transferred to the newly founded Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler in Copenhagen, where his primary instructor was Peder Severin Krøyer.Ruth Negendanck: ''Brynolf Wennerberg (1866–1950). Maler – Zeichner – Gebrauchsgrafiker'', Fischerhude 2012,
In 1888, he moved to Leipzig, which was then the center of the German publishing industry, and worked as a draftsman. There, he met and married Helene Pauline Hermann. They had two daughters. His career began in earnest in 1892, when he began working for the satirical ''Meggendorfer-Blätter
''Meggendorfer-Blätter'' was a German language, German art and satirical magazine, which was published in Munich, Germany, from 1888 to 1944. The magazine was closely related to the illustrator and painter Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925).
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''. He would create drawings for them until 1901. In 1898, he designed his first event poster.
Around 1900, he and his family moved to Fürstenfeldbruck
Fürstenfeldbruck () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, located 32 kilometres west of Munich. It is the capital of the district of Fürstenfeldbruck. it has a population of 35,494. Since the 1930s, Fürstenfeldbruck has had an air force base.
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. A third daughter was born there in 1902. They moved to Munich in 1905 and, in 1908, he opened his own studio. The following year, he became an illustrator for '' Simplicissimus'', another satirical magazine. He would be associated with them until 1919, and produced 103 illustrations, many of which would be reproduced as postcards.Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Übersicht der Beteiligung Wennerbergs an den Ausgaben des Simplicissimus/ref> In 1911, their second daughter, Ellen, died of tuberculosis. Helene was unable to recover from the loss, and their marriage broke up. She died suddenly in 1912, at the age of forty, shortly after Brynolf and their surviving daughters had been granted Bavarian citizenship. After that, he decided to leave Munich. He travelled to the Isle of Wight, with his youngest daughter, Charlotte, and Anny von Řezníček, widow of the artist Ferdinand von Řezníček, whom he married there. His oldest daughter, Astrid, later joined them. They stayed for only a short time before settling in Paris. When World War I broke out, they were staying at their summer house near Mammern, Switzerland. They were unable to return to France, and all of their belongings there were lost. From 1915, he lived in Bad Aibling and worked in a studio that was formerly occupied by the portrait painter, Wilhelm Leibl. During the war, he contributed drawings to the humor magazine, ''
Lustige Blätter
''Lustige Blätter'' (German: ''Comic Pages'') was a satirical magazine published between 1885 and 1944 in Berlin. Its subtitle was ''schönstes buntes Witzblatt Deutschlands'' (German: ''Germany's most beautiful colorful humor paper'').
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''.''Lustige Blätter''@ the Zeitschriften Datenbank In the 1920s and 30s, he produced advertising materials, which featured young, slender women, with a facial expression that became known as the "Wennerberg Smile". For most of his final years, he concentrated on paintings, rather than graphic design. Some of them were simple landscapes of Upper Bavaria.
Selected paintings
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Columbina
Columbina (in Italian Colombina, meaning "little dove"; in French and English Colombine) is a stock character in the ''commedia dell'arte''. She is Harlequin's mistress, a comic servant playing the tricky slave type, and wife of Pierrot. Rudlin ...
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File:Brynolf Wennerberg Spieglein Spieglein.jpg, "Mirror, Mirror..."
File:Brynolf Wennerberg Morgengabe.jpg, Wedding Dowry
References
Further reading
* Lesley Milne: ''Laughter and War. Humorous-Satrirical Magazines in Britain, France, Germany and Russia 1914-1918''. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016,External links
Brynolf Wennerberg website
home page
Biography and paintings
@ Gailer Fine Art, Chiemsee
an exhibition in Fürstenfeldbruck
''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (2013): "Obsession für schöne und elegante Frauen"
a review of the exhibition by Florian J. Haamann {{DEFAULTSORT:Wennerberg, Brynolf 1866 births 1950 deaths Swedish painters 19th-century German painters German illustrators German poster artists Swedish emigrants Immigrants to the German Empire People from Västergötland 20th-century German painters