FOGELBERG, BENEDICT (or BENGT) ERLAND (1786-1854), Swedish sculptor, was born at Gothenburg on Aug. 8, 1786. His father sent him in 1801 to Stockholm, where he studied at the school of art. He then studied in Paris, first under Pierre Guerin, and afterwards under the sculptor Bosio, for the technical practice of sculpture. In 1820 Fogelberg went to Rome, where the greater part of his remaining years were spent. He died at Trieste on Dec. 22, 1854. The subjects of Fogelberg's earlier works are mostly taken from classic mythology. Of these, "Cupid and Psyche," "A Bather" (1838), "Venus and Cupid" (1839) and "Psyche" (1854) may be mentioned. His "Odin" (1831), "Thor" (1842), and "Balder" though influenced by Greek art, are of greater interest. His portraits and historical figures, as those of Gustavus Adolphus (5849), of Charles XII. (1851), of Charles XIII. (1852), and of Birger Jarl, the founder of Stockholm (1853), are faithful and dignified works.
See Casimir Leconte, L'Oeuvre de Fogelberg (1856) .