Berndt Adolf Lindholm (20 August 1841 – 15 May 1914) was a Finnish landscape painter ( belonging to Swedish speaking population of Finland ). He is usually associated with the Düsseldorf School, but his work also displays early

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elements.Brief biography
@ Kulta-Aika He specialized in coastal scenes.

Biography

He took his first drawing lessons from Johan Knutson in

Porvoo Porvoo (; ; ) is a city in Finland. It is located on the south coast of the country, on the Gulf of Finland. Porvoo lies in the eastern part of the Uusimaa region. The population of Porvoo is approximately , while the Porvoo sub-region, sub-re ...

.Teuvo Termonen, ''Suomalaista postikorttitaidetta'' (Finnish Postcard Art), Suomen Postikorttiyhdistys Apollo 2006, From 1856 to 1861, he attended the drawing school of the Finnish Art Society in

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, where he studied with Robert Wilhelm Ekman. From 1863 to 1865, he attended the

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then went to the

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for one year to continue his studies with

Hans Gude Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Ro ...

. In 1867 he arrived in Paris, where he was strongly influenced by the new French painting. He was the first Finn to embrace French

landscape painting Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a cohe ...

and apply it to Nordic nature. Upon returning to Helsinki, he was a teacher for a short time at the Finnish Art Society's drawing school, with the young

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among his students. His first solo exhibition (Helsinki, 1870) was successful and, three years later, he was invited to become a member of the

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. From 1873 to 1874, he was in Paris, where his teachers included

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@ Virtuuali Vuoksi (Lapeenranta University of Technology). He also came under the influence of

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and the Barbizon school. In 1876, he was awarded a medal at the

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in Philadelphia and received the Finnish State Prize the following year. That same year he settled in

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and became Curator of the city art collection in 1878; a position he held until 1900. He also taught at the

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and was elected to the

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. In addition to his painting, he provided illustrations for several works by

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. His work is represented at the

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, the Turku Art Museum,

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and the

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and at museums in

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and

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Selected paintings

Berndt Lindholm - Landscape in Eastern Finland with Mounted Cossacks.jpg, ''Landscape in Eastern Finland with Mounted Cossacks'', 1866 Berndt Lindholm - Vallinkoski - A II 784 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg, ''Vallinkoski Rapid'', 1872 Lindholm, Höyrylaiva jäissä.jpg, ''Steamboat in the Ice'', 1875 Berndt Lindholm - Ship on a Stormy Sea.jpg, ''Ship on a Stormy Sea'' Berndt Lindholm - Corn Harvest (Landscape from Western Sweden) - A I 559 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg, ''Oat Harvest on the

Hisingen Hisingen () is the fifth-largest island of Sweden (after Gotland, Öland, Södertörn and Orust), with an area of . It is a river island, formed by the split of the Göta Älv at Bohus Fortress, Bohus, and is defined to the east and south by t ...

Island'', 1878 Berndt Lindholm - View of Ladoga.jpg, ''View of Ladoga'', 1878 Berndt Lindholm - Forest Interior - A II 1708 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg, ''Forest Interior'', 1878 Lindholm, Helsinki Sörnäisistä nähtynä.jpg, ''Helsinki seen from

Sörnäinen Sörnäinen (; ''Sörkkä'' or ''Sörkka'' in Helsinki slang) is a Subdivisions of Helsinki#Neighbourhoods, neighbourhood in the city of Helsinki, Finland. Sörnäinen is located a little more than one kilometre north from the coastal centre of ...

'', 1881 Berndt Lindholm - Rantakuva - A II 772 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg, ''Shore Scene'', 1882 Berndt Lindholm - Hämäläinen maisema (1896).jpg, ''Landscape from

Häme Tavastia (; ; ; also called ''Yam'' (Ямь) or ''Yem'' (Емь) in Russian sources) is a historical province in the south of Finland. It borders Finland Proper, Satakunta, Ostrobothnia, Savonia and Uusimaa. History The province has been ...

'', 1896 Berndt Lindholm - Norwegian Landscape - A II 931 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg, ''Norwegian Landscape'', 1897 Berndt Lindholm - Longing.jpg, ''Longing'' Lindholm, Berndt Kalliorinne mäntymetsässä.jpg, ''Rocky Hillside in a Pine Forest''

References

External links

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Biography

Selected paintings

See also

References

Further reading

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