Ernst Josephson

Works by this Artist

Water Sprite
Ernst Josephson, 1884

Background

bourgeois Jewish family

Studies

Academy for Independent Artists (1867-76, Stockholm); Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Léon Gérôme (1874, Paris)

Career

1874 - studies in Paris

1879-88 - lives in Paris

1881 - exhibits portrait Godfrey Renholm at Paris Salon

1882 - Spainish Blacksmiths rejected from Paris Salon

1887 - first schizophrenic episode

1888 - publication of first poetry collection, Black Roses

Important Artworks

David and Saul, 1878 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)

Godfrey Renholm, 1880 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)

Spanish Blacksmiths, 1882 (The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo)

Jeanette Rubenson, 1883 (Göteborgs Konstmuseum)

Self-Portrait in the Garden, Bréhat, 1891 (watercolor, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm). Made from memory.

Readings

Facos, Michelle. “A Controversy in Late Nineteenth Century Painting: Ernst Josephson’s The Water Sprite,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, vol. 56, no. 1 (1993): 61-78