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Jernberg
Jernberg is a Swedish surname, Swedish ornamental surname literally meaning "iron mountain/hill" Notable people with the surname include: * August Jernberg (1826–1896), Swedish artist * Ingemar Jernberg * Michael Jernberg (born 1963), Swedish racing driver * Olof Jernberg *Sixten Jernberg (1929–2012), Swedish cross-country skier *Sofia Jernberg (born 1983), Swedish opera singer See also * *Rautavaara (other) Rautavaara is a municipality of Finland. Rautavaara or Rautawaara may also refer to: * Rautavaara Airfield, an airfield in Rautavaara, Finland Surname Rautavaara is the Finnicization of the Swedish surname Jernberg, both being ornamental surname ... References {{surname, Jernberg Swedish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Jernberg
Kennet Michael Jernberg (born January 6, 1963) is a former rallycross driver from Kinna, Sweden. Career Jernberg made his debut in the European Rallycross Championship (ERX) in 1991, driving an ex-Stig Blomqvist Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth in Division 1, finishing fifth overall. He improved to third overall in 1992, winning the last round at Estering, Germany. In 1993 he switched to the more prestigious Division 2, driving a Ford Escort RS Cosworth, finishing eleventh in his first season. Over the next sixteen years he challenged for the title, but the closest him came was second overall in 2004, 2005 and 2009. He ended his long association with Ford after the 2007 ERX season and used cars from Škoda until his retirement. Despite the lack of title success in Europe, he managed to win the Swedish Rallycross Championship in 1995, 1998 and 2001. He took part in the inaugural season of the Global RallyCross Championship (GRC) in 2011, finishing fourth overall in the AWD class. Ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Jernberg
Sofia Jernberg (born 5 July 1983, in Ethiopia) is a Swedish experimental singer, improviser, and composer. She is widely known for expanding the "instrumental" possibilities of the voice and is active both as soloist and in various bands. Her musical partners include internationally acclaimed performers such as Peter Evans, Eve Risser, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kim Myhr and Heiner Goebbels. Between 2002 and 2004, Jernberg studied jazz at Fridhems Folk High School. Later she studied for Per Mårtensson and Henrik Strindberg at The Gotland School of Music Composition. In 2008, she received the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's jazz award. Jernberg is the leader (together with the pianist Cecilia Persson) of the chamber jazz group Paavo. In 2008, the group received the "jazz group of the year" award from Swedish Radio. Jernberg is also working on the contemporary classical music scene, in which she serves as both singer and composer. As a singer she has premiered pieces by composers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixten Jernberg
Edy Sixten Jernberg, known as "Sixten", (6 February 1929 – 14 July 2012) was a Swedish cross-country skier and one of the most successful cross-country skiers of all time. Between 1952 and 1964 he took part in 363 ski races, finishing within the podium in 263 and winning 134 of them; during this period he won four world titles and nine Olympic medals. In 12 starts over three consecutive Winter Games he never finished worse than fifth place, and between 1955 and 1960, he won 86 out of 161 competitions.Sixten Jernberg Swedish Olympic Committee Jernberg was a blacksmith and a lumberjack before beginning his career as a cross-country skier. He specialized in the longer distances, with four of his eight gold medals coming over 50 km, one over 30 km and three in the 4 × 10 km relay. He also won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Jernberg
August Jernberg (16 September 1826 – 22 June 1896) was a Swedish artist. He was a member of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Biography He was mainly a 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 Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1843 to 1846 and then traveled to Paris, where he studied from 1847 to 1853 with Thomas Couture (1815–1879). He exhibited at the Scandinavian Art Exhibition at Stockholm in 1850 and at the Exposition Universelle (1855) at Paris. In 1854, he settled in Düsseldorf and was admitted as a member to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Ma .... He remained in Düsseldorf until his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olof Jernberg
Olof August Andreas Jernberg (23 May 1855, Düsseldorf – 15 February 1935, Berlin) was a German landscape and marine painter of Swedish ancestry; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Life and work His father was the Swedish Genre art, genre painter, August Jernberg. After completing his secondary education, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1875 to 1876. His primary instructors were Andreas Müller (painter), Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein. Later, he worked with Karl Müller (painter), Karl Müller, and became a private student of Eugen Dücker, with whom he studied landscape painting until 1879. From 1880 to 1881, he was in France, where he occasionally sought advice from the Swedish painter, Hugo Salmson. He also came under the influence of the Barbizon school, especially the works of Jean-François Millet and Théodore Rousseau, and developed a preference for painting en plein air. This was followed by others travels, notably to Sweden, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |