Berndt Lindholm
Finnish, 1841 - 1914
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Berndt Adolf Lindholm was a Finnish landscape painter ( belonging to Swedish speaking population of Finland ). He is usually associated with the Düsseldorf School, but his work also displays early Impressionist elements. He specialized in coastal scenes.
He took his first drawing lessons from Johan Knutson in Porvoo. From 1856 to 1861, he attended the drawing school of the Finnish Art Society in Turku, where he studied with Robert Wilhelm Ekman. From 1863 to 1865, he attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf then went to the Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe for one year to continue his studies with Hans Gude.
His first solo exhibition (Helsinki, 1870) was successful and, three years later, he was invited to become a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
From 1873 to 1874, he was in Paris, where his teachers included Léon Bonnat. He also came under the influence of Charles-François Daubigny and the Barbizon school. In 1876, he was awarded a medal at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and received the Finnish State Prize the following year.
That same year he settled in Gothenburg and became Curator of the city art collection in 1878; a position he held until 1900. He also taught at the Valand Academy and was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. In addition to his painting, he provided illustrations for several works by Zacharias Topelius.
His work is represented at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, the Turku Art Museum, Åbo Akademi University and the Gothenburg Art Museum and at museums in Norrköping and Vänersborg.
