August Hagborg was a Swedish painter.

Biography

After initial training received at the Academy of Fine Arts

Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts or Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna, founded in 1773 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden...

 in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, August Hagborg came to Paris in 1875 to complete his training. He maintained a studio for most of his career, and continuously exhibited at the Salons between 1876 and 1909.

An Important figure in the naturalistic movement at the turn of the century, often close to artists such as Jules Breton and Jules Bastien-Lepage

Jules Bastien-Lepage

Jules Bastien-Lepage , was a French naturalist painter, a style related to the Realist movement.-Life and work:...

, he often depicted scenes inspired by coastal Normandy

Normandy

Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:...

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Works in Collections

• Portrait of woman in black dress, oil on canvas, circa 1896, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen

External Links

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Hagborg (French Wikipedia)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:August_Hagborg (Wikimedia Commons)