Richard Bergh

1858–1919 · Symbolism

Sven Richard Bergh 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. 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.

36 paintings

• Förstad till Paris
• Boy from Concarneau (1882)
• Portrait of Bodil Faber (1905)
• Self-Portrait (1874)
• Johan Kindborg, 1861-1907, konstnär, gift med trägravören Emy Edman (1884)
• My Wife (1886)
• Landscape from Halland (1895)
• Girl Picking Flowers (1884)
• Photography (1884)
• After the sitting (1884)
• Nordic summer's evening (1899)
• The Poet Gustav Fröding
• The Dying Day (1895)
• Ellen. The Artist's Daughter (1909)
• Hypnotic Séance (1887)
• Sketch for The Knight and the Maid (1894)
• The artist Eva Bonnier (1889)
• The Council of the Society of Artists (1903)
• The Artist, Julia Beck (1882)
• Hjalmar Branting, 1860-1925
• Park Landscape, Tyresö (1910)
• The Verger's House at Tyresö (1911)
• Vision. Scene from Visby (1894)
• Poplars Growing near a Watercourse
• The Fortress of Varberg (1894)
• Sea Landscape off Honfleur (1881)
• Portrait of the Painter Nils Kreuger (1883)
• Hand Studies for the Portrait of Gustaf Fröding (1909)
• Julius Caspar, Merchant (1904)
• Painting (1895)
• The Knight and the Maiden (1897)
• Portrait of August Strindberg (1905)
• Author Per Hallström and his wife Helga (1904)
• Fröding av bergh2 (1909)
• Portræt af maleren Nils Kreuger (1883)
• De gamle ved stranden (1903)