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Richard Bergh

1858 - 1919

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Sven Richard Bergh (28 December 1858 – 29 January 1919) was a Swedish painter, art critic and museum manager. Despite many years in France, he remained unattracted to Impressionism, preferring instead the Naturalism of painters such as Jules Bastien-Lepage. He also rejected the idea of creating landscapes en plein aire. Bergh is also notable for coining the term stämningsmåleri or "mood painting", in an 1896 essay about breaking with realism and embracing a new subjective style of painting towards the fin de siècle. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Bergh is the 1,211th most popular painter (up from 1,268th in 2019), the 477th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 463rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swedish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Richard Bergh ranks 1,211 out of 2,023. Before him are Hans Rottenhammer, Barthel Beham, Willem van de Velde the Elder, Viggo Johansen, Edward Poynter, and Eugène Isabey. After him are Alla Horska, Albertus Pictor, Virginie Demont-Breton, Josep Maria Subirachs, Araniko, and Abanindranath Tagore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Richard Bergh ranks 82. Before him are Stjepan Sarkotić, Maximilian Njegovan, Cipriano Castro, Agnes Baden-Powell, José Miguel Gómez, and Hans Meyer. After him are Sébastien Faure, Henry Watson Fowler, P. J. Kennedy, Emma Calvé, Carl Swartz, and Wilhelm Fliess. Among people deceased in 1919, Richard Bergh ranks 95. Before him are Max Heindel, Victor Segalen, Julia Lermontova, Vasily Rozanov, Aaron Aaronsohn, and Edward Poynter. After him are Akashi Motojiro, Franz Nissl, Evgraf Fedorov, Frederick DuCane Godman, Paul Deussen, and Maria Nikiforova.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Richard Bergh ranks 477 out of 1,879. Before him are Kerstin Ekman (1933), Magnus, Duke of Östergötland (1542), Sonja Edström (1930), Nils von Kantzow (1885), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), and Nils Edén (1871). After him are Gunnar Ekelöf (1907), Gideon Ståhlberg (1908), Ivan Eklind (1905), Sven Davidson (1928), Ingvar Wixell (1931), and Tommy Körberg (1948).

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Among PAINTERS In Sweden

Among painters born in Sweden, Richard Bergh ranks 12. Before him are Amalia Lindegren (1814), Bruno Liljefors (1860), Eugène Jansson (1862), Martin van Meytens (1695), Jenny Nyström (1854), and Anna Palm de Rosa (1859). After him are Jeanna Bauck (1840), Gustaf Cederström (1845), Fanny Brate (1861), Maria Röhl (1801), Karin Bergöö Larsson (1859), and Mårten Eskil Winge (1825).

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