Albert Gustav Aristide Edelfelt ( Swede. Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt ; July 21, 1854 , Borgo , Grand Duchy of Finland - August 18, 1905 , Borgo , Grand Duchy of Finland ) - Finnish painter, graphic artist of Swedish origin. A prominent representative of the "golden age" of Finnish art of the period 1880-1910. He painted paintings on historical and everyday subjects, portraits, landscapes. He worked in monumental painting. Used the technique of pastel and watercolor.
| Albert Albertovich Edelfelt [1] | |
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 Self portrait | |
| Birth name | Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Borgo , VKF |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Borgo , VKF |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire |
| Genre | |
| Study | Alexander University (1873) |
| Awards | |
| Ranks | free community IAH (1877) Academician of IAH (1881) full member of IAH (1895) |
Biography
on the stamp of Finland (1954)
Albert Edelfelt was born on July 21, 1854 in the vicinity of Borgo (Porvoo). His father, Karl Edelfelt, was an architect.
From 1869 to 1871 he studied at the School of Drawing of the Union of Finnish Artists in Helsingfors with Berndt Lindholm and Bernhard Reinhold. From 1871 to 1873 he studied at the University of Helsingfors , and from 1872 to 1873 - at the Academy of Arts of Antwerp [6] . In 1874 he took lessons from J. L. Jerome in Paris [6] .
Repeatedly traveled to Italy and France , was in England (1878), Spain (1881), Sweden , Denmark and Russia .
This artist can be safely ranked not only among the major painters of Finland, but also in Europe. ‹...› His first picture, exhibited first in France and then in St. Petersburg - “Queen Blanca” , immediately attracted the attention of the public. The following picture, “Duke Karl over the corpse of Klas Fleming” (1878) strengthened his fame. ‹...› Edelfeld has created a number of excellent Finnish genres, an example of “A Pit of Finnish Skerries” [7] . The types of Finnish people are grasped by the artist with charming epic simplicity. ‹...› From the beginning of the 1890s, Edelfeld set about portraying evangelical plots in a Finnish national setting: he gives Mary Magdalene the character of a simple peasant girl from Karelia, and Christ who stands before her is a type of Finnish shepherd, in simple bast shoes. The entire scene of Magdalen's repentance is surrounded by a silver-blue haze of the coast of Lake Saimaa with a thin birch forest along the outskirts of mossy shores. As the pandanus of this picture can be called "Christmas" , where the Mother of God is placed in a wretched Finnish shack and dressed in a national costume. Edelfeld is an excellent portrait painter. Particularly good is the portrait of Pasteur , depicting him working in his laboratory. [eight]
In 1877, the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts recognized him as his honorary associate, and in 1886 gave him the title of academician [9] for the painting “The Funeral of a Child” . Full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1895) [1] .
Exhibited since 1872. Belonged to the realistic direction, was influenced by impressionism [6] . He painted historical and everyday paintings, scenes from Finnish folk life, portraits and landscapes [9] . Among his works are monumental historical canvases ( “The Swedish king Karl insults the corpse of his enemy staffhalter Fleming in 1537” , 1878, “March of the Bjerneborg regiment” , 1892), paintings on everyday themes ( “Women from Ruokolahti” , 1887; “Laundresses” , 1893), portraits ( L. Pasteur , 1885) and landscapes ( Pines , 1898) [6] .
He died on August 18, 1905 in Borgo.
Memory
In the city of Porvoo in the Old Town Hall , an artist's museum was created.
Gallery
- Paintings by Albert Edelfelt
Queen Blanca
King Charles IX and Ebba Stenbock at the tomb of Klas Fleming
The Repentance of Mary Magdalene
Neighbors
- Portraits by Albert Edelfelt
Portrait of Louis Pasteur
Portrait of opera singer Aino Akte
Portrait of the nephews of Emperor Alexander III
Portrait of the artist’s sister - Berta
Portrait of a girl
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Handbook of the Imperial Academy of Arts, 1915 , p. 232.
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 121778231 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt
- ↑ Albert Edelfelt
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Edelfelt Albert // Popular Art Encyclopedia. Ed. Field V. M .; M .: Publishing house "Soviet Encyclopedia", 1986.
- ↑ The painting is in the collection of the art gallery of the Luxembourg Palace in Paris.
- ↑ Art History, 1897 , p. 697–698.
- ↑ 1 2 Edelfelt, Albert // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Literature
- Edelfelt, Albert // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- One hundred wonderful Finns. Kaleidoscope of biographies = 100 suomalaista pienoiselämäkertaa venäjäksi / Ed. Timo Wihavainen; per. with finnish. I.M.Solomeshcha. - Helsinki: Fr. literature, 2004 .-- 814 p. - ISBN 951-746-522-X . . - Electronic version (Retrieved February 18, 2010)
- Kontula-Webb, S. A. Works by A. Edelfelt on the orders of Alexander III and Maria Fedorovna. To the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. Little-known pages // Scientific works. V. 28. Problems of development of edema. lawsuit / PAX; St. Petersburg state. Acad. Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture I. E. Repina; scientific ed. V.A. Lenyashin , comp. O. A. Reznitskaya, A. I. Shamankova. - SPb. Jan - March 2014. - S. 90-100.
- Berezina V. N. A. Edelfelt and his works in the State Hermitage and other museums of the USSR. - L. , 1963.
- S. N. Kondakov. Anniversary Directory of the Imperial Academy of Arts. 1764-1914. - St. Petersburg: Partnership R. Golike and A. Vilborg, 1915. - T. 2. - S. 232-233. - 454 s.
- P.P. Gnedich. Art history. - St. Petersburg: Edition by A.F. Marx, 1897. - V. 3. - S. 697-698. - 720 s.
Links
- Works by Albert Edelfelt in the collection of the Finnish National Gallery (inaccessible link) (Russian)
- Albert Edelfelt Biography - Virtual Finland
- Edelfelt Gallery of Works (English)
- ALBERT Edelfelt (1854–1905) ARTIST