August Jernberg

{{short description|Swedish artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = August Jernberg | image = August Jernberg - from Svenskt Porträttgalleri XX.png | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = August Jernberg | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1826|9|16}} | birth_place = Gävle, Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1896|6|22|1826|9|16}} | death_place = Düsseldorf, German Empire | known_for = Painter | training = | movement = Düsseldorf school of painting | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = }} '''August Jernberg''' (16 September 1826 – 22 June 1896) was a Swedish artist. He was a member of the Düsseldorf school of painting.<ref name=sbl>{{cite web|url= https://runeberg.org/sbh/a0548.html|title= August Jernberg|publisher= Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon |author=Boo von Malmborg |access-date=March 1, 2019}}</ref>

==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 genre and landscape painter. He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1843 to 1846 and then traveled to Paris, where he studied from 1847 to 1853 with Thomas Couture (1815–1879).<ref>{{cite web|url= http://stephanekirkland.com/2011/09/thomas-couture/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120117035236/http://stephanekirkland.com/2011/09/thomas-couture/|url-status= dead|archive-date= January 17, 2012|title= Thomas Couture|publisher= stephanekirkland.com|accessdate=March 1, 2019}}</ref>

He exhibited at the Scandinavian Art Exhibition at Stockholm in 1850 and at the Exposition Universelle (1855) at Paris. In 1854, he settled in Düsseldorf and was admitted as a member to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He remained in Düsseldorf until his death, with the exceptions of some shorter trips.<ref name="sbl"/>

In 1848, he married Margareta Bjurling (1823–1903). They were the parents of several children including their son Olof Jernberg (1855–1935) who was a German landscape and marine painter.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://emp-web-84.zetcom.ch/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=artist&objectId=15092&viewType=detailView |title=Olof Jernberg|publisher= nationalmuseum |accessdate=March 1, 2019}}</ref>

==Gallery== <gallery mode=packed heights=170> 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) </gallery>

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==External links== {{Commons category|August Jernberg}} *[http://lexikonettamanda.se/show.php?aid=14215 August Jernberg] Lexikonett Amanda (in Swedish)

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