Axel Nordgren

Axel Wilhelm Nordgren (5 December 1828, Stockholm - 12 February 1888, Düsseldorf) was a Swedish landscape painter.

He was also influenced by Gude's teacher, Andreas Achenbach, who taught him to do careful detail studies from nature before painting.

Although he eventually decided to make Düsseldorf his home, he made periodic study trips back to Sweden and to Norway, often in the company of Gude or Müller.

In the 1870s, when that school became the subject of harsh, even devastating criticism, he rejected those critiques as a "public nuisance" (in a letter to Johan Christoffer Boklund).

From letters he exchanged with Julius Weidig [sv], a Master Tailor who was also an amateur painter, it would appear that he was bartering paintings for clothing.