Ernst Axel Syberg (12 January 1906 – 17 August 1981) was a Danish painter who in the early 1930s associated with the

artists' colony An art colony, also known as an artists' colony, can be defined two ways. Its most liberal description refers to the organic congregation of Artist, artists in towns, villages and rural areas, often drawn by areas of natural beauty, the prior exi ...

in northwestern

Zealand Zealand ( da, Sjælland ) at 7,031 km2 is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size). Zealand had a population of 2,319,705 on 1 January 2020. It is the 1 ...

known as the Odsherred Painters. From 1934, he was a member of

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where he exhibited his work.

Biography

Son of the artists

Fritz Syberg Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Syberg, generally known as Fritz Syberg, (28 July 1862, Fåborg – 20 December 1939, Kerteminde) was a Danish painter and illustrator, one of the or Funen Painters (''Fynboerne'') living and working on the ...

and Anna Syberg, Syberg was born in

Kerteminde Kerteminde (nickname: ''Min Amandas by'', i.e. ''My Amanda's town''), is a town in central Denmark, located in Kerteminde Municipality on the island of Funen. The town has a population of 6,042 (1 January 2022).

on the island of

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. As an artist he was self-taught but he had graduated in law from

Copenhagen University The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala Unive ...

in 1931. He became an associate of the painters Karl Bovin and

Alfred Simonsen Alfred Simonsen (16 December 1906 – 12 April 1935) was a Danish painter who in the early 1930s became associated with the artists' colony in northwestern Zealand known as the Odsherred Painters. When he died at the early age of 27, he had only ...

. He painted a considerable number of landscapes, both oils and watercolours, depicting the Danish countryside. Many of his works present scenes of summery skies above streams set among flowers and leafy bushes. Syberg was also fascinated by Italian art and architecture, sketching wall decorations in Florence and Rome, convinced that classical artists had been faced with the same problems he was confronted with himself. He developed some of these into paintings of Italian houses, streets and squares. He debuted at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling at Den Frie in 1933 and thereafter at Corner.

References

External links

Examples of Syberg's work from Odsherred Museum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Syberg, Ernst 1906 births 1981 deaths 20th-century Danish painters People from Kerteminde