Ernst Syberg: 23 cool facts

Ernst Axel Syberg (12 January 1906 – 17 August 1981) was a Danish painter who in the in the future 1930s allied with the artists’ colony in northwestern Zealand known as the Odsherred Painters. From 1934, he was a believer of Corner where he exhibited his work.

Son of the artists Fritz Syberg and Anna Syberg, Syberg was born in Kerteminde upon the island of Funen. As an artist he was self-taught but he had graduated in enactment from Copenhagen University in 1931. He became an belong to of the painters Karl Bovin and Alfred Simonsen. He painted a considerable number of landscapes, both oils and watercolours, depicting the Danish countryside. Many of his works gift scenes of summery skies above streams set in the course of flowers and leafy bushes. Syberg was as well as fascinated by Italian art and architecture, sketching wall decorations in Florence and Rome, convinced that classical artists had been faced taking into consideration the similar problems he was confronted like himself. He developed some of these into paintings of Italian houses, streets and squares. He debuted at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling at Den Frie in 1933 and thereafter at Corner.