Josef Wilhelm Wallander

In pursuit of that, he was apprenticed to a bricklayer in the summers and studied architecture at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in the winter.

To help support the family, he and his sister Charlotta were trained in drawing and lithography and put to work doing portraits and magazine illustrations.

He himself became a local character around the castle environs and in nearby Kjesäter, where he would entertain by singing, playing piano, acting and dancing.

Thanks to his earnings from that project, he was able to travel to Düsseldorf, where he studied with Rudolf Jordan, who shared his interest in folk life.

In 1885, he refused to sign a petition put forward by a group called the "Opponenterna", criticizing the teaching methods and styles taught at the Royal Academy.