View from Djurgården across Kastellholmen towards Söder and Katharina Church.
Signed Alfr. Bergström and dated 1887. Oil on canvas 23 x 33 cm.
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Dated 1887.
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A very early work by Bergström when he was only 18 years old. Painted en plein air, likely during late autumn or early winter in 1887 during his first year of study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
Alfred Maurits Bergström was a Swedish artist and professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was a painter, watercolourist, and etcher. During the years 1887–1891, he studied at the Academy and won the royal medal in 1891. He stayed in France from 1894 to 1895. He also visited North Africa and the Netherlands and painted Swedish landscapes featuring seas and countryside.
From 1898 to 1901, Bergström was an adjunct teacher in landscape painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. In 1900, he became a member of the Academy. He was a professor of landscape painting at the Academy from 1910 to 1930 and was the chairman of the Swedish Artists' Association between 1911 and 1913.
Alfred Bergström often drew his motifs from Stockholm and its surroundings as well as the central Swedish nature. Motifs from Stockholm in winter are recurring. In 1908, Bergström was commissioned along with Carl Larsson, Gottfrid Kallstenius, and Gustaf Cederström to execute mural paintings in the marble foyer of the Royal Dramatic Theatre.
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Alfred Bergström completed a traditional artist education; he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts alongside travelling to Germany and France. He became known for his depictions of Stockholm and its surrounding, as well as the landscapes of central Sweden. In the conflict between the Academy and the Artists' Association, he advocated for the academic tradition of outdoor painting but was also captivated by the twilight painting style of the turn of the century. His works are represented in the National Museum in Stockholm, as well as in the Art Museums of Gothenburg and Malmö.
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