Fredrik Ahlstedt Explained

Fredrik Ahlstedt
Birth Name:	August Fredrik Ahlstedt
Birth Date:	24 April 1839
Birth Place:	Turku, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now Finland)
Death Place:	Pargas, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire (now Finland)
Nationality:	Finnish
Field:	Painting

August Fredrik Ahlstedt (24 April 1839 Turku – 19 August 1901 Pargas) was a Finnish landscape and portrait painter.

Biography

Born in Turku, he studied under Robert Wilhelm Ekman before continuing his studies in Düsseldorf (1869–74).^{[1] [2]} He was one of the first artists to join Victor Westerholm in the artists colony at Önningeby on the island of Åland in 1886. He and his wife Nina Ahlstedt, also a painter, returned there in subsequent years.^{[3] [4]}

Ahlstedt was a prolific painter, creating a wide range of portraits and landscapes. His work is part of permanent collections in Finland and abroad.^[5] He participated in exhibitions at the Finnish Artists Exhibitions from 1892 to 1901, as well as in Stockholm (1897) and Paris (1900). A posthumous exhibition was held at the Finnish Artists Exhibition in 1924.^[6]

See also

• Finnish art

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ahlstedt, Auguste Fredrik. Oxford Index. 29 March 2017. 29 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161029045140/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00001604. dead.
2. Web site: August Fredrik Ahlstedt. RKD. 29 March 2017 .
3. Web site: Önningebykolonin - en bortglömd konstnärsgemenskap från landskapsmåleriets guldålder . Tidskriften Skärgård, Årgång 24 Nr 4. 2001. 28 March 2017 . Swedish.
4. Web site: Reitala . Aimo . Ahlstedt, Fredrik (1839 - 1901) . Kansallisbiografia . 5 August 2020 . 1 July 2020.
5. Web site: Ahlstedt, Fredrik s. 1839 - k. 1901. Suomen Taiteilijaseuran joulualbumi 1923. 1923. 30 March 2017 . Finnish.
6. Web site: Ahlstedt, August FREDRIK. Kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli. 30 March 2017 . Finnish.