Artist Richard BERG, a Swedish landscape painter

Richard BERG - Swedish Artist

In 1858, Sven Richard BERG (in Stockholm), a Swedish landscape painter and portrait painter, was born. Art critic, teacher. Director of the National Museum of Sweden.

He showed interest in symbolism and psychology and used its methods and approaches in his art. The author of several books on art.

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Being the son of the artist I.E. Berg, the founder of the new Swedish school of landscape painters, he followed in his father's footsteps - he studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Liberal Arts.

After graduating in 1881, he went to France, where he settled in a colony of artists in Gre-sur-Luen. Later, in Paris, he was a student at the Colarossi Academy. Apprentice Jean-Paul Laurent.

He established himself at home as a talented portrait painter, although in the future his landscapes will play an important role in the development of Swedish romantic nationalism. Richard Berg's paintings of the 1880s are characterized by prevailing realism with elements of romanticism.

The artist’s brushes belong to portraits of a number of famous figures of Swedish culture, science and politics, including August Strindberg, Eva Bonier, Ellen Kay, Gustav Freding, Karl Yalmari Branting and others.

In 1883, he first exhibited his paintings at the Danish State Museum of Art in Copenhagen and the Paris Salon.

Together with several odnomadtsami in 1893, Berg founded a colony of artists in Warberg, which later laid the foundation for the so-called Warber school of painting, created a number of landscapes there. Since 1905 he lived near Stockholm.

In February 1915 he headed the National Museum of Sweden, and on October 31, 1917 he was awarded the title of Doctor in Philosophy.

Sven Richard BERG died on January 29, 1919 in Stockholm.