View From The Royal Park Djurgården Over Kastellholmen towards Katharina Church and Södermalm
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Dimensions: Height 33 cm (13 inches) x Width 43 cm (17 inches)
A view of Stockholm painted from the Royal Park of Djurgården and overlooking the small island of Kastellholmen painted by Alfred Bergström (1869-1930)
The church visible in the background is Katharina church, built in 1695, located in Södermalm, Stockholm.
Signed: Alfr. Bergström, 1887.
Oil on canvas.
A very early work by Bergström when he was only 18 years old. Painted en plein air, probably during the late autumn or early winter of 1887 when he did his first year of study at the Royal Art Academy.
Alfred Maurits Bergström was a Swedish artist and professor at the Royal Academy of Arts. He was a painter, watercolorist and etcher.
During the years 1887–1891 he studied at the Academy and won the Royal Medal in 1891. He stayed in France in 1894–1895. He also visited North Africa and the Netherlands and executed Swedish landscapes from the sea and the countryside.
Between 1898–1901 Bergström teached landscape painting at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm. In 1900 he became a member of the Academy of Arts. He was professor of landscape painting at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm 1910–1930 and between 1911 and 1913 chairman of the Swedish Artists' Association.
Alfred Bergström often took his motifs from Stockholm and its surroundings and the Swedish nature. Motifs from Stockholm in winter is common.
In 1908, Bergström was commissioned, together with Carl Larsson, Gottfrid Kallstenius, and Gustaf Cederström, to carry out mural paintings in the marble lobby of the Royal Theatre in Stockholm.
He is represented at the National Museum in Stockholm and in the Art Museums in Gothenburg and Malmö.