Carl Gustaf Hellqvist
Painting, Visual Artist
1851 – 1890
Who was Carl Gustaf Hellqvist?
Carl Gustaf Hellqvist was one of Sweden's most popular historical painters in the 19th century. He was born in 1851 in Kungsör, between Arboga and Eskilstuna at Lake Mälaren, Sweden, where he grew up and went to school.
In 1864 Hellqvist started to study art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, and in 1875 he was awarded the Royal Academy's highest prize for his painting "Gustaf I anklagar Peder Sunnanväder och Mäster Knut inför domkapitlet i Västerås".
Two years later in 1877 Hellqvist was awarded a travelling scholarship from the Academy, and he travelled around the European continent. He moved together with his fiancée, Julie, to Munich in 1879.
In 1882 he and Julie got married, and they left for Paris, where Hellqvist earlier had been present at the Paris Salon with his oil painting "The Death of Sten Sture the Younger on the Ice of Lake Mälaren, 1520".
In August 1882 he was awarded the gold medal for his magnificent historical painting "Valdemar Atterdag Holding Visby to Ransom, 1361" in Vienna, Austria.
Hellqvist suffered from painful head aches which forced him to take a leave from his teaching at Königliche akademische Hochschule für die bildende Künste in 1886.
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- Born
- Dec 15, 1851
Kungsör - Also known as
- Хелльквист, Карл Густав
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Education
- Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
- Lived in
- Kungsör
- Died
- Nov 19, 1890
Munich
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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