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
Ernst Josephson
Born: Stockholm, 16 April 1851
Died: Stockholm, 22 November 1906
Nationality: Swedish
Died: Stockholm, 22 November 1906
Nationality: Swedish
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.
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