Year Of Birth

1860

Year Of Death

1929

Biography

Oscar Björck developed a reputation as one of the most significant Scandinavian artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as a member of the Skågen Painters, a close knit school of artists who summered together in the Danish fishing town of Skågen. Along with contemporaries such as Per Severin Krøyer and Michael Ancher, Oscar Björck painted bright, naturalistic scenes influenced by the French Impressionists. He also travelled extensively across Europe, becoming a sought after portraitist and genre painter, before settling in his later years as a celebrated professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.