Wilhelm von Gegerfelt

Wilhelm von Gegerfelt studied at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Royal Institute of Art. Julius Runge is recorded as having studied under Wilhelm von Gegerfelt. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and landscape. Residence is recorded at Paris. Works named in the authority record are Eastern Scene and Clam-Pickers in Villerville. Work by Wilhelm von Gegerfelt is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and Gothenburg Museum of Art.

Born in Gothenburg, Gegerfelt was the son of the architect Victor von Gegerfelt (1817–1915). From 1861 to 1863, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy, at the Royal Swedish Academy from 1864 to 1867, and thereafter in Düsseldorf until 1872. He then went to Paris where he developed a new technique joining Alfred Wahlberg as one of the first Swedes to represent the Modern Breakthrough in Nordic art. He travelled to the north coast of France, to Italy and to England, painting landscapes of Venice's lagoons and the English chalk cliffs, in addition to scenes of summer evenings in Sweden. His works can be seen in the National Museum in Stockholm, in the Gothenburg Museum of Art and in Skagens Museum. Gegerfelt exhibited in Monaco from 1883 and won a silver medal at the Vienna exhibition the same year. In Paris, he sold his paintings to the Duke of Bassano as well as to Goupil & Cie. Gagerfelt spent his later life in the fishing village of Torekov in the south of Sweden.

The authorities additionally record the headings Vilhelm von Gegerfelt, Vilhelm Gegerfelt, Wilhelm Von Gegerfelt, Wilhelm Von Gegerfeldt and W. de Gegerfeld. He was the child of Victor von Gegerfelt. He married Gunhild von Gegerfelt. One child is recorded: Cecilia von Gegerfelt.

Vinterbild från Uppsala.