Werner Holmberg
Finnish painter
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| Intro | Finnish painter | |
| A.K.A. | Gustaf Werner Holmberg | |
| A.K.A. | Gustaf Werner Holmberg | |
| Places | Finland | |
| was | Painter | |
| Work field | Arts | |
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| Birth | 1 November 1830, Helsinki, Helsinki sub-region, Uusimaa, Southern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency | |
| Death | 24 September 1860Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Government Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (aged 29 years) |
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Biography
Gustaf Werner Holmberg (1830–1860) was a Finnish landscape painter.
Holmberg was born in Helsinki and learned to paint at the drawing society there. He moved to Düsseldorf where he studied under Hans Gude and Erik Bodom.
He is known for bringing Romantic landscape painting to Finland. His Road in Häme was painted in the year he died of lung problems in Düsseldorf.