J.A.G. Acke
| J.A.G. Acke | |
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| Born |
April 7, 1859 Bergielund in |
| Died | September 5, 1924 (aged 65) Vaxholm |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Known for | oil painting |
| Movement | Önningeby colony |
| Spouse(s) | Eva Topelius |
Johan Axel Gustaf Acke, usually called J.A.G. Acke, originally Andersson, (April 7, 1859 Bergielund in - September 5, 1924 in Vaxholm), was a Swedish painter, illustrator and sculptor.
Acke was the son of the botanist and professor Nils Johan Andersson and artist Anna Tigerhielm, and brother of the artist Elias Anckers. His sisters were also artistically active. He grew up in Bergielund, located between today's Vasa Park and Karlbergsvägen. His father, who was a curator at the National Museum had his official residence there. As a child he accompanied on his father's research trips to Lapland and Gotland and illustrated early father's work, with its floral notes.
Acke was already like 14 -year-old student at the Art Academy's basically school, he continued his studies at the academy until 1882, and then he spent a period of Edvard Perseus free art school. He made study trips to the Netherlands and Belgium and to France where he studied etching FA Milus. Acke disliked academic studies and concluded the rebellious young artists at the Academy of Fine Arts, but completed his studies there, however .
Acke came to Åland 1886 and became a member of Önningeby colony, a Swedish-Finnish artist colony that appeared where roughly between 1886 and 1914. The founder was the Finnish painter Victor Westerholm. Acke painted much in Åland and got on with the other artists who saw him as a bit odd, energetic and humorous person. He spoke jokingly about Åland as "Maland." "Mower Man" is his most famous works from this period. Among the artists was a rebellious mood directed toward the academic painting and the Düsseldorf School. It was inspired by naturalism and later Impressionism. Acke differed from the other artists in that he also painted outdoor winter designs from Åland. Outdoor Painting outdoors in winter was unusual then for practical reasons. In 1887, Acke met his future wife Eva Maria Topelius in Önningeby, but the relationship was merely amicable. When emotions began to be torn between Acke and Anna Wengberg, a Swedish artist who also painted in Önningeby, it was Eva Topelius he married in 1891, daughter of the Finland-Swedish writer Zachris Topelius.
In the 1890s, Acke was with the restoration of the medieval wall paintings in Uppsala Cathedral . He worked for several years at a large painting, Snöljus, who represented winter fishing on ice in Åland and had high hopes of painting that was sent to the Salon in Paris, but was refused after which the couple Ackes visit to Åland thinned out somewhat. They lived at times in Finland and at times in Sweden during the early years of their marriage and participated in the Finnish art world. They spent much of his father in law, partly for economic reasons . After Zacharias Topeliusvägen death in 1898, they came to be increasingly directed towards Sweden and the Swedish art world .
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