August Hagborg

August Hagborg
Born (1852-05-26)26 May 1852
Gothenburg
Died 30 April 1921(1921-04-30) (aged 68)
Paris

August Hagborg (born in Gothenburg on 26 May 1852, died in Paris on 30 April 1921) was a Swedish painter.

Biography

August Hagborg had the advantage of coming form a comfortable family of ship cahndlers in Gothenburg and could afford to become a professional artist. After initial training received at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, August Hagborg went to Paris in 1875 to complete his training. He maintained a studio there for most of his career, and continuously exhibited at the Salons between 1876 and 1909. Hagborg was part of a circle of Swedish artists then in Paris, including Anders Zorn. August Hagborg was also one of a group of artists gathered around Prince Eugen, brother of the King of Sweden and himself a gifted painter. Hagborg figures in the small panel devoted to Art showing the Prince with this group in the drawing room of Prince Eugen's villa "Waldemarsudde" near Stockholm.

An Important figure in the naturalistic movement at the turn of the century, often close to artists such as Jules Breton and Jules Bastien-Lepage, he often depicted scenes inspired by coastal Normandy. The number of pictures of the Normandy coast and the simple folk who lived there - fishermen, clam diggers and their families - must compose half of Hagborg's extant works. Other themes include Swedish peasant girls, landscapes and protraits. Early in his career Hagborg made a number of "historic" paintings depicting imagined scenes from XVIIIth Century France.

Works in Collections

  • Portrait of woman in black dress, oil on canvas, circa 1896, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen

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