Bengt Nordenberg

Bengt Nordenberg
File:Bengt Nordenberg1.JPG
Born	Bengt Nordenberg (1822-04-22)22 April 1822 Jämshög, Blekinge, Sweden
Died	Düsseldorf, Germany
Nationality	Swedish
Education	Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Known for	Painting
Movement	Düsseldorf school of painting

Bengt Nordenberg (April 22, 1822 – December 18, 1902) was a Swedish artist who belonged to the Düsseldorf school of painting. He is best known for his genre paintings with everyday life scenes from the Dalarna, Skåne and Blekinge areas of Sweden. However, he moved to Düsseldorf, Germany in the 1850s, working with other painters. Nordenberg has also painted pictures of middle-class and upper-class life, and also religious paintings and altarpieces.

Nordenberg was born in Jämshög, in the south of Sweden, on April 22, 1822. He grew up in poverty and became an apprentice to a painter in Sölvesborg. In 1843 he fulfilled his wish to come to Stockholm and study at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. In the autumn of 1851, he went to Düsseldorf, where first Theodor Hildebrandt and then later, Adolph Tidemand became his teachers. In particular, the latter had a big influence on Nordenberg's painting style and subject matter. For some time he worked as an assistant to Tidemand, making reproductions of his paintings.

In 1856 Nordenberg received a travel grant from the Swedish state. He studied with Thomas Couture for one and a half years, made a short stop in Düsseldorf, and in the autumn of 1858 he went to Rome. He returned, however, soon to Düsseldorf, where he settled for life.

Gallery

• Bengt Nordenberg - Kyrkrodd, Dalarna.jpg

  Rowing to the Church, Dalarna (1854)

• Bengt Nordenberg - Veteranerna.jpg

  The Veterans (1882)

• Bengt Nordenberg - En riven get.jpg

  A Torn Goat

• Bengt Nordenberg - Herdefamilj med getter.jpg

  Sheppard Family with Goats (1863)

• Bengt Nordenberg - Vinterfärd.jpg

  Winter Travel (1882)

• Bengt Nordenberg - Portrait of Pehr Hörberg.jpg

  Portrait of Pehr Hörberg in the Pulpit of Virestad Church (1860)

• Avsked från föräldrahemmet, Bengt Nordenberg - Hallwylska museet - 13192.tif

  Leaving home (1876)

References

• Bengt Nordenberg in Nordisk familjebok (Swedish)
• Lexikonett amanda och Kultur1 (Swedish)
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