1. Hugo Birger was weak early on from rheumatism, so he needed more time for his studies.
21 Facts About Hugo Birger
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Hugo Birger moved to Paris in 1877, and spent the summer of 1878 in Barbizon with Carl Larsson and Carl Skanberg.
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Hugo Birger debuted at the Paris Salon the following year with Rue Gabrielle.
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Hugo Birger submitted his painting Toaletten, in which a lady is being redecorated by her hairdresser surrounded by her friends in front of the toilet mirror, to the Paris Salon in 1880.
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From 1881 to 1882, Hugo Birger visited Spain and Northern Africa.
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Hugo Birger's largest painting from Spain was La feria, which depicts a breakfast in Granada.
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Hugo Birger's biggest supporter was Pontus Furstenberg, who was a wholesaler in Gothenburg.
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Much of what Hugo Birger painted is preserved in Gothenburg's Museum of Art thanks to Furstenberg.
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Hugo Birger therefore asked Furstenberg for extra contributions to come down to warmer climates.
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In Paris, Hugo Birger had been inspired by the Spanish masters such as Diego Velasquez, Jusepe de Ribera, Francico de Zurbaran and Francisco Goya, and the trip therefore took off to Granada together with his friend Christian Skredsvig.
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Just before the wedding, Hugo Birger completes "La Feria" - Breakfast in Granada - which depicts a breakfast on the veranda outside the small hotel with the whole host family gathered to enjoy the guitar and flamenco dance.
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Hugo Birger had longed for Italy for a long time but had not dared to go there without the academy's support.
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Hugo Birger had applied for the state scholarship repeatedly since 1877 and applied for it again, again in vain.
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In 1885, Hugo Birger became one of the most ardent among the Opponenterna, a group of artists who demanded reform of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
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At the "Opponenterna's exhibition" in Blanch's art salon in Stockholm on September 15,1885, Hugo Birger contributed several paintings.
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Hugo Birger wanted to fight on and took on the challenge that came to mean the most to him as an artist "Scandinavian artists' breakfast in Cafe Ledoyen".
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Hugo Birger had high hopes of finally receiving a prize with this painting.
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Hugo Birger's paintings were fairly well and fairly valued by the Swedish critics.
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Three days after arriving in Helsingborg, Hugo Birger died at Hotel Mollberg on June 17,1887.
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Hugo Birger was then 33 years old and his artistic activity had only spanned a decade.
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Hugo Birger is buried in the New cemetery in Helsingborg, near the chapel.