Personer och institutioner
Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, David
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David
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Klöcker Ehrenstrahl
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| Födelsedatum |
1629-09-23
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| Dödsdatum |
1698-10-23
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Verksamhetstid 1651 – 1698: Sverige, Stockholm
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| Biografi |
David Klöker inkallad till Sverige 1651; hovmålare hos Karl XI 1661, adlad Ehrenstrahl 1674; gift 1 1663 med Maria Momma; gift 2. 1681 med Emerentia Bauman; slöt själv sin ättegren; dotter Anna Maria, Sveriges första kända kvinnliga målarinna.
David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl is largly recognized as the finest painter of the Swedish Carolingian era. The young David Klöcker made his first Swedish connection when he was hired as a notar during the peace negotiations in Westphalia 1646-48. After that he travelled to Amsterdam where he studied under the German painter Juriaen Jacobsz. Shortly after he came in contact with the Swedish Govenor General of Pomerania, Carl Gustaf Wrangel for whom he executed several paintings during his stay at Wrangels residence in Wolgast in 1651-52. He then accompanied Wrangel to Sweden where he was introduced at court and painted for the Widow Queen Maria Eleonora. Ehrenstrahl later left Sweden for a study trip to Italy and several European courts before returning and settling as court painter in 1661. He was raised to nobility and added the name Ehrenstrahl in 1674.
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