August Jernberg
Painting, Visual Artist
1826 – 1896
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Who was August Jernberg?
August Jernberg was a Swedish artist who emigrated to Germany.
He was mainly painter of portraits in his early years; he also painted historical and biblical pictures. In the 1860s he became a genre and landscape painter. He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm 1843-1846 and then went to Paris, where he studied under Thomas Couture from 1847 to 1853. In 1854 he settled down in Düsseldorf, and remained there until his death, with the exceptions of some shorter trips.
Also his son Olof Jernberg was an artist.
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- Born
- Sep 16, 1826
Gävle - Nationality
- Sweden
- Germany
- Lived in
- Gävle
- Died
- Jun 22, 1896
Düsseldorf
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on July 23, 2013
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