Paintings

Home Paintings
Post Title
Post Title
Post Title
Post Title
Post Title
Image Title
Image Title
Image Title
Image Title
Image Title
Wilhelm von Gegerfelt
Swedish, 1844-1920
Moonlight Over the Promenade
Oil on canvas
27 by 45 in. W/frame 39 by 57 in.
Signed lower right

Provenance:

Bukowskis, Stockholm, December 4, 2001, Lot 65;
Private New England Collection
Le Trianon Fine Art & Antiques
Alexander Avenard Collection

Inventory Number: Art G259
1900-1949 City Scene European Marine Period 1900-1949 Impressionist/Post Impressionist

See Artist Bio below.


Wilhelm von Gegerfelt
Swedish, 1844-1920

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt, also Vilhelm von Gegerfelt was a Swedish painter.

Born in Gothenburg, Gegerfelt was the son the architect Victor von Gegerfelt (1817-1915).
From 1861-1863, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy, at the Royal Swedish Academy from 1864-1867, and thereafter in Düsseldorf until 1872.

He then went to Paris where he developed a new technique joining Alfred Wahlberg as one of the first Swedes to represent the Modern Breakthrough in Nordic art.
He travelled to the north coast of France, to Italy and to England, painting landscapes of Venice’s lagoons and the English chalk cliffs, in addition to scenes of summer evenings in Sweden.

His works can be seen in the National Museum in Stockholm, in the Gothenburg Museum of Art and in Skagens Museum.

Gegerfelt exhibited in Monaco from 1883 and won a silver medal at the Vienna exhibition the same year. In Paris, he sold his paintings to the Duke of Bassano as well as to Goupil and Cie.

Gagerfelt spent his later life in the fishing village of Torekov in the south of Sweden

Top