Albert Gebhard ( Fin. Albert Gebhard ; April 29, 1869 , Toholampi , Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire (now Central Ostrobothnia , Finland ) - May 15, 1937 , Helsinki ) - Finnish painter , portrait painter , illustrator , caricaturist , sculptor . The representative of the golden age of Finnish art (1880-1910), which had a great influence on raising the national self-awareness of the Finnish people.
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Biography
In 1887-1889 he studied at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts . He continued his studies in Paris under the direction of Fernand Cormon (1890-1891), then at the Julian Academy (1898). Then in 1897–1898 in Italy at the Florentine freestyle school Scuola Libera .
Participated in the exhibition of Russian-Finnish artists in St. Petersburg in 1898. He worked as a teacher and director of the school of drawing of the Finnish Art Association in Helsinki.
Under the leadership of A. Gebhard in 1933, the Finnish Association of Artists (now Grafia ) was founded.
Creativity
The artist is a realist . Author of many portraits , landscapes , newspaper illustrations and cartoons. He created several monuments (for example, "Monument to the victims of the war for freedom". 1921 in Toholampi ).
Gebhard paintings often depicted the lives of ordinary people.
He was buried at the Hietaniemi cemetery in Helsinki .
Memory
In 1963, the Finnish Association of Artists established a medal to them. Albert Gebhard.
Notes
- ↑ Klinge M. Kansallisbiografia
- ↑ Register of the Artists' Association of Finland
- ↑ 1 2 3 Register of the Artists' Association of Finland
Literature
- World of Art - World of Art: in memory of the exhibition of Russian and Finnish artists, held in St. Petersburg in 1898. Helsinki: Ateneum, 1998. ISBN 951-53-1818-1 .