Brynolf Wennerberg - Artist Info

About Brynolf Wennerberg

  • Biography

    Brynolf Wennerberg the Younger was also a Swedish-German painter, draftsman, and commercial artist. He achieved international fame as a contributor to the satirical magazine Simplicissimus and the American magazines Pictorial Review and Puck.

    Wennerberg was not a landscape painter, although he began creating landscapes of his new home in Upper Bavaria in 1915. His subject matter was human beings, particularly the youthful, slender woman with her uncertain, restrained smile, the "Wennerberg smile."

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