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Richard Bergh | |
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 Richard Bergh, photograph from 1904. | |
| Born | Sven Richard Bergh 28 December 1858 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Died | 29 January 1919 (aged 60) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Education | Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Stockholm |
| Known for | Portrait painter, landscape painter |
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Sven Richard Bergh (28 December 1858 – 29 January 1919) was a Swedish painter, art critic and museum manager. Despite many years in France, he remained unattracted to Impressionism, preferring instead the Naturalism of painters such as Jules Bastien-Lepage. He also rejected the idea of creating landscapes en plein aire.[1] Bergh is also notable for coining the term stämningsmåleri or "mood painting", in an 1896 essay about breaking with realism and embracing a new subjective style of painting towards the fin de siècle.[2]
- ^ Karl Wåhlin. "S Richard Bergh". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
- ^ Gunnarsson, Torsten (1998). Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century. Yale University Press. p. 203. ISBN 9780300070415. OCLC 39060776.