Werner Holmberg

Werner Holmberg
Portrait of Holmberg by Per Södermark in 1853
Born	1 November 1830 Helsinki
Died	24 September 1860 Düsseldorf
Nationality	Finland

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.^[1]

He is known for bringing romantic landscape painting to Finland. his Road in Häme was painted the year he died of lung problems in Düsseldorf.

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Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 62348792 LCCN: n87883793 ISNI: 0000 0000 6678 1816 GND: 118979795 ULAN: 500013760 RKD: 39232

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