August Jernberg

August Jernberg ( born September 16, 1826 in Gävle, † June 22, 1896 in Dusseldorf ) was a Swedish painter.

Life

Jernberg was initially students Kungliga Konsthögskolan Stockholm and first went to Paris in 1847 before moving in 1851 to Dusseldorf, where he further developed itself, took up his residence and was accepted as a member of the Art Academy in Dusseldorf. From 1855 until his death he was a member of the Artists' Union paintbox.

Works (selection)

He started with some historical genre paintings, but soon turned with greater happiness of the representation of village stories, which he treated with dramatic characteristics and plenty of humor. Among the best are:

• The accident in the painter's studio,
• Persuasion (1864 ),
• The clarinetist,
• The new and the broken pipe,
• The first transition to school,
• Painter on the study tour (1869 )
• The visitors before Rembrandt's Night Watch in Amsterdam,
• The bear at the fair,
• The grandfather as Kinderwärterin and
• The market place in Dusseldorf.

Even as a still life painter, he was important. His son Olof Jernberg (1855-1935) became known as a landscape painter of cliffs and coastline.