August Jernberg (16 September 1826 – 22 June 1896) was a

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artist. He was a member of the

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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

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and

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painter. He studied at the

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in Stockholm from 1843 to 1846 and then traveled to

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, where he studied from 1847 to 1853 with

Thomas Couture Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge,Wilkinson, Burke. ''The Life and Works o ...

(1815–1879). He exhibited at the Scandinavian Art Exhibition at Stockholm in 1850 and at the

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at Paris. In 1854, he settled in

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and was admitted as a member to the

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. He remained in Düsseldorf until his death, with the exceptions of some shorter trips. In 1848, he married Margareta Bjurling (1823–1903). They were the parents of several children including their son

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 ...

(1855–1935) who was a German landscape and marine painter.

Gallery

Image:August Jernberg-A Dancing Bear.jpg, ''A Dancing Bear'' (1865) Image:August Jernberg-The New Pipe.jpg, ''The New Pipe'' Image:August Jernberg-Interiör från ateljé.jpg, ''Interior from an artists studio'' Image:August Jernberg-Still Life.jpg, ''Still life'' (1863) Image:August Jernberg-View from Düsseldorf.jpg, ''View from Düsseldorf'' (ca 1865)

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August Jernberg
Lexikonett Amanda (in Swedish) 1826 births 1896 deaths 19th-century Swedish painters Swedish male painters 19th-century German painters German male painters Swedish emigrants to Germany People from Gävle Artists from Düsseldorf 19th-century German male artists 19th-century Swedish male artists Düsseldorf school of painting {{Germany-painter-stub