Berndt Lindholm

Berndt Adolf Lindholm (1841—1914) was a Swedish-Finnish landscape painter. He is usually associated with the Düsseldorf School, but his work also displays early Impressionist elements.[1] He specialized in coastal scenes. [2]

Berndt Lindholm
Berndt Lindholm. From the Swedish Portrait Gallery XX (1901)
Born(1841-08-20)August 20, 1841
Loviisa
DiedMay 15, 1914(1914-05-15) (aged 72)
Gothenburg
EducationMember Academy of Arts (1873)
Alma materDüsseldorf School
Known forPainting

Biography

He took his first drawing lessons from Johan Knutson (1816–99) in Porvoo.[3] From 1856 to 1861, he attended the drawing school of the Finnish Art Society in Turku, where he studied with Robert Wilhelm Ekman.[4] From 1863 to 1865, he attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf then went to the Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe for one year to continue his studies with Hans Gude.[5]

His first solo exhibition (Helsinki, 1870) was successful and, three years later, he was invited to become a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.[1]

From 1873 to 1874, he was in Paris, where his teachers included Léon Bonnat.[6] He also came under the influence of Charles-François Daubigny and the Barbizon school. In 1876, he was awarded a medal at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and received the Finnish State Prize the following year.[7]

That same year he settled in Gothenburg and became Curator of the city art collection in 1878; a position he held until 1900.[8] He also taught at the Valand Academy and was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.[1] In addition to his painting, he provided illustrations for several works by Zacharias Topelius.[6]

His work is represented at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, the Turku Art Museum, Åbo Akademi University and the Gothenburg Art Museum and at museums in Norrköping and Vänersborg.[9]

Selected paintings
  • Coastal Landscape
  • Pine Forest
  • Coastal Scene

References
  1. Brief biography Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine @ Kulta-Aika
  2. "Berndt Lindholm 1841—1914". nykarlebyvyer.nu. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  3. Teuvo Termonen, Suomalaista postikorttitaidetta (Finnish Postcard Art), Suomen Postikorttiyhdistys Apollo 2006, ISBN 952-91-9956-2
  4. "Robert Wilhelm Ekman". Biografiskt lexikon för Finland. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  5. "The Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts)". Akademie der Künste. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  6. Brief biography @ Virtuuali Vuoksi (Lapeenranta University of Technology).
  7. "The Barbizon School: French Painters of Nature". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  8. Timo Huusko, Lindholm, Berndt: Koivumaisema (Birch landscape) Finnish National Gallery (2011) Online
  9. "Berndt Lindholm (1841-1914)". Bukowskis. Retrieved March 1, 2019.

Further reading
  • Jüri Kokkonen, Brita Löflund: Berndt Lindholm (exhibition catalog) Åbo konstmuseum, 1995 ISBN 952-95760-6-4
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