Bengt Nordenberg
Bengt Nordenberg was a Swedish artist who belonged to the Dsseldorf school of painting. He is best known for his genre paintings with everyday life scenes from the Dalarna, Skne and Blekinge areas of Sweden. However, he moved to Dsseldorf, Germany in the 1850s, working with other painters. Nordenberg has also painted pictures of middleclass and upperclass life, and also religious paintings and altarpieces.
Nordenberg was born in Jmshg, in the south of Sweden, on April 22, 1822. He grew up in poverty and became an apprentice to a painter in Slvesborg. In 1843 he fulfilled his wish to come to Stockholm and study at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. In the autumn of 1851, he went to Dsseldorf, where first Theodor Hildebrandt and then later, Adolph Tidemand became his teachers. In particular, the latter had a big influence on Nordenbergs painting style and subject matter. For some time he worked as an assistant to Tidemand, making reproductions of his paintings.
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