FOGELBERG, BENEDICT (or BENGT) ERLAND (1786-1854)

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FOGELBERG, BENEDICT (or BENGT) ERLAND (1786-1854) , Swedish sculptor, was born at Gothenburg on the 8th of August 1786. His father, a copper-founder, encouraging an early-exhibited

taste

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

for

design

DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

, sent him in 18or to Stockholm, where he studied at the school of art. There he came much under the influence of the sculptor Sergell, who communicated to him his own enthusiasm for antique art and natural grace.

Fogelberg

FOGELBERG, BENEDICT (or BENGT) ERLAND (1786-1854)

worked hard at Stockholm for many years, although his instinct for severe beauty rebelled against the somewhat rococo quality of the art then prevalent in the city. In 1818 the grant of a government pension enabled him to travel. He studied from one to two years in Paris, first under Pierre Guerin, and after-wards under the sculptor Bosio, for the technical practice of sculpture. In 182o

Fogelberg

FOGELBERG, BENEDICT (or BENGT) ERLAND (1786-1854)

realized a dream of his life in visiting Rome, where the greater part of his remaining years were spent in the assiduous practice of his art, and the careful study and

analysis

ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

of the works of the past. Visiting his native country by royal command in 1854, he was received with

great

GREAT

enthusiasm, but nothing could compensate him for the absence of those ' remains of antiquity and surroundings of free natural beauty to which he had been so

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

accustomed Returningto Italy, he died suddenly of apoplexy at Trieste on the 22nd of December 1854. The subjects of Fogelberg's earlier works
are mostly taken
from classic myth-
ology. Of these,
"Cupid and
Psyche," "

Venus

VENUS

entering the
Bath," "A
Bather " (1838),
" Apollo Citharede," "

Venus

VENUS

and Cupid " (1839) and " Psyche " (1854) may be mentioned. In his representations of Scandinavian mythology Fogelberg showed, perhaps for the first time, that he had powers above those of intelligent assimilation and imitation. His "Odin"(1831),"Thor" (1842), and" Balder" (1842), though influenced by Greek art, display considerable power of independent

imagination

IMAGINATION

. His portraits and historical figures, as those of Gustavus

Adolphus

ADOLPHUS, JOHN LEYCESTER (1795-1862)

(1849), of Charles XII. (1851), of Charles XIII. (1852), and of

Birger

BIRGER (?-1266)

Jarl, the founder of Stockholm (1853), are faithful and dignified works.
See Casimir Leconte, L'fuvre de Fogelberg (Paris, 1856).

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