Olof August Andreas Jernberg (23 May 1855,

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– 15 February 1935, Berlin) was a German landscape and

marine painter Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre parti ...

of Swedish ancestry; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

Life and work

His father was the Swedish

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painter,

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. After completing his secondary education, he studied at the

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from 1875 to 1876. His primary instructors were Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein. Later, he worked with Karl Müller, and became a private student of

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, 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

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and

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, and developed a preference for painting en

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. This was followed by others travels, notably to Sweden, and he was a frequent guest at the artists' colony in

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. When he returned to Düsseldorf, he worked as an assistant to Dücker at the Kunstakademie; a position he held until 1898. In 1889, together Heinrich Hermanns, Eugen Kampf and Helmuth Liesegang, he was one of the co-founders of the "Lucas Club"; an organization opposed to the exhibition policy of the . One of their goals was to combine the stylistic approaches of the Barbizon and

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s with the aesthetics of

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. Two years later, the Lucas Club was subordinated to the new . In 1899, a new "St. Lucas Club" was founded by Liesegang and the other founders of the original Club, with the addition of

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, Otto Heichert and Gustav Wendling.Nicole Roth: "Wie modern ist die Düsseldorfer Malerschule?" In

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(Ed.): ''Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918''. Vol.1,

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, Petersberg 2011, Until 1897, he was also a member of the progressive artists' association "

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" (Paintbox). In 1898, he was awarded the title of Professor and, in 1901, appointed to the

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. From 1918 until his death, he taught landscape painting at the

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. In 1922, he was honored with a solo exhibition at the . His best known students include Theo von Brockhusen, , and .

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Brief biography
@ the Schwarz Gallery
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