Bengt Erland Fogelberg
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Bengt Erland Fogelberg,also known asBenedict Fogelberg,(8 August 1786 – 22 December 1854) was aSwedishsculptor.
Biography[edit]
Fogelberg was born inGothenburg.His father, a copper-founder, encouraging an early exhibited taste for design, sent him in 1801 toStockholm,where he studied at the school of art. There he came much under the influence of the sculptorJohan Tobias Sergel,who communicated to him his own enthusiasm for antique art and natural grace. Fogelberg worked hard at Stockholm for many years, although his instinct for severe beauty rebelled against the somewhatrococoquality of the art then prevalent in the city.[1]
In 1818 the grant of a government pension enabled him to travel. He studied from one to two years in Paris, first underPierre-Narcisse Guérin,and afterwards under the sculptorFrançois Joseph Bosio,for the technical practice of sculpture. In 1820 Fogelberg 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 of the works of the past.
Visiting his native country by royal command in 1854, he was received with great enthusiasm, but nothing could compensate him for the absence of those remains of antiquity and surroundings. He died suddenly ofapoplexyatTriesteon 22 December 1854.[1]He is buried atÖstra kyrkogårdenin Gothenburg.
The subjects of Fogelbergs earlier works are mostly taken from classic mythology, such as Apollo Citharede, Venus andCupid(1839) andPsyche(1854). HisOdin(1831),Thor(1842), andBalder(1842), were influenced by Greek art, although showing independent imagination. His portraits and historical figures, as those ofGustavus Adolphus(1849), ofCharles XII(1851), ofCharles XIII(1852), and ofBirgerJarl, the founder of Stockholm (1853), are faithful and dignified works.[1]
He sculpted theequestrian statueof KingCharles XIV John (Karl XIV Johan)located at Slussplan onGamla StaninStockholm.
Gallery[edit]
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Oden, 1830, by Bengt Erland Fogelberg, carrara marble. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden -
Helen, consort of Menelaos, by Bengt Erland Fogelberg, carrara marble. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden -
Equestrian statue of Karl XIV Johan, in Stockholm -
Bust of Karl XIV Johan, in Uppsala
References[edit]
- ^abcOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911). "Fogelberg, Benedict Erland".Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 590.Endnote: See Casimir Leconte,L'Œuvre de Fogelberg(Paris, 1856).
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External links[edit]
Media related toBengt Erland Fogelbergat Wikimedia Commons
- More works by Fogelberg@ ArtNet
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