Carl Larsson E-Book

Klaus H. Carl

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Carl Larsson

Leseprobe

Author:

Klaus H. Carl

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Klaus H. Carl

Carl Larsson

(1853-1919)

Table of content

Biography

Sweden

Carl Larsson

Larsson’s Drawings

The National Museum

Midvinterblot

The Final Years

Postface

List of Illustrations

Notes

Seen in the Mirror, 1895.

Watercolour on paper. Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg.

Biography

Year

Life

Works (Selection)

1853:

Carl Larsson is born in Stockholm on 28 May.

1860:

Primary school enrollment.

1867:

Following the advice of his teacher, he starts studying art at the preliminary class of the Royal Swedish Art Academy in Stockholm.

1869:

Participates in a drawing class at the Academy. As a caricaturist he works for the humorous journalKasper.

1872:

Larsson meets Vilhelmina Holmgren. Participation in a course on studies from the nude at the Academy.

1872;Female Nude with Grape.

1873:

Larsson wins a prize at the Academy.

1874;Moses is Abandoned by His Mother.

1875;Lady Playing the Lute.

1876:

Larsson wins a Royal Medal for his previous works.

Vilhelmina Holmgren dies during childbirth of their second child.

1877:

Larsson undertakes his first journey to Paris, works a lot but without success.

1877;Palmera,

1878;Landscape from Barbizon.

1879-1880:

His first contact with fresco painting.

1879;Ceiling Painting and Lunettes of Bolinder Palace.

1880:

Larsson spends two years in Barbizon, but then moves to the artists’ colony in Grez-sur-Loing. Here he meets Karin Bergöö, who also studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

1881:

Collaboration with Strindberg for his work about Sweden’s cultural history.

1881;Amorette is Watering Calla,

1881;Self-Portrait as Napoleon,

1881;Sculpture Garden,

1882;Forbidden Fruits.

1883:

Carl Larsson and Karin Bergöö marry in Stockholm. Another short stay in France.

1883;In the Kitchen Garden,

1883;The Old Man and the Nursery Garden.

1884:

Birth of their oldest daughter Suzanne in Grez-sur-Loing. Purchase ofThe PondinGrez-sur-Loingby the French state.

1884;Poppies,

1884;The Grape,

1884;Electricity.

1885:

Trip to London; exhibits at theSalon, final return to Schweden, Larsson accepts a position as an art teacher in Göteborg.

1885;Interior of the Fürstenberg Gallery,

1885;Karin Larsson with Suzanne,

1885;Interior with a Lady Reading.

1886:

Journey through Paris, Venice and Rome to Messina.

1886;Lady Reading the Newspaper,

1886;Open-Air Painter. Winter-Motif from Åsögatan 145, Stockholm.

1887:

Birth of his oldest son Ulf; participates in theExposition Internationaleby Georges Petit in Paris.

1887;Alma,

1887;Grez-sur-Loing(The Loing River).

1888:

Birth of his son Pontus. Trip to Paris.

Karin‘s father donatesLittle Hyttenäsin Sundborn.

1888;Profiles,

1888;Construction of the Eiffel Tower.

1888:

He participates in a tender for the interior design of Stockholm‘s National Museum.

1889;Christmas Roses.

1890:

Refusal of his proposals, re-tendering.

1894:

Larsson receives commission to send in six cardboards for the interior design of the staircase’s upper part.

Portraits of his children:

1894;Lisbeth,

1894;Suzanne,

1894;Ulf and Pontus.

1896:

Execution of the works.

1897-1898:

Larsson executes the ceiling paintings of Stockholm’s Royal Swedish Opera. Participation in the General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm.

1897;Portrait of Jenny Lind,

1898;Karin and Kersti,

1898;Lisbeth Angling.

1899:

He publishesA Homeincluding reproductions of some of his watercolours.

1899;A Fairy Tale, Kersti and the Dream of a Meadow,

1900;Self-Portrait Before the Mirror.

1903;The Artist‘s Father.

1905:

Death of his son Ulf. Larsson receives commission to design a wall for the upper part of the National Museum’s hall. 1904;My Country House in Winter,

1905;Harrowing,

1905;Portrait of Pastor Pettersson.

1908-1909:

Works on his albumOn the Sunny Side, for which he creates 28 watercolours, which he shows at an exhibition in Munich.

1907;Girl and Rocking Chair,

1908;Evening Light at the Piano,

1908;Self-Portrait.

1911:

Submission and exhibition of his first sketches forMidvinterblot.

1911;Karin Peeling Rhubarb,

1911;Self-Portrait.

1915:

Tentative hanging ofMidvinterblotin the National Museum.

1912;Sun and Flowers,

1912;Letter-Writing.

1916:

Refusal of purchasingMidvinterblotby the National Museum.

1917;By the Cellar.

1918:

Larsson writes his autobiography, which will only be published in 1931.

1918;Portrait of the Organist Gustaf Hedström,

1918;Portrait Hans Svedberg,

1918;Self-Portrait.

1919:

Larsson dies on 22 January.

Before surveying an artist’s life and work, it is quite recommendable to make oneself aware of the historical, social and economic circumstances not only of his immediate environment, which is his family, but also of the wider field in which he moved. This especially applies to the case of the arts, literature, and general distractions influencing people’s life at the time. Only by considering the culture which the artist was a part of, can one really understand the origin and development of his talent, intellect and methods.

Sweden

Sweden refers to the first populating of a region, which took place after the last Ice Age, around 11 000 BC. In his encyclopedia, Naturalis historiae (77 CE), Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) said about the area that it “lay below the turning point of earth and the outmost circle of the stars”. He was not completely wrong about this, for Sweden, which is bordered by Norway in the West and by the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia in the East and South, not only reaches up to Finland but also to the polar circle in the North and is by far the biggest of the three Scandinavian countries. The Roman historian Tacitus (c. 58-120 CE) was also interested in this peninsula, three times as long as it is wide. In his controversial ethnographical text Germania (98 CE) he described the Suions who lived there.

But in the Middle Ages it was the Vikings, sea warriors coming from Northern Europe, who were better known, much more dreadful, and whose name remains unclear until today. Supposedly, they originally were pirates who, on their first known big raid out of the Swedish territory at the end of the 8th century, arrived with their ships at the Scottish coast, attacked the monastery St Cuthbert on the island Lindisfarne, perpetrated a massacre, defiled the sacred sites and disappeared as quickly as they had appeared.[1]

Alcuin, scholar and most important advisor of Charlemagne (747/748-814) in matters of state and religion, living at the time in the emperor’s court in Aachen, wrote about the incident: “Never before has such terror appeared in Britain. Behold the church of St Cuthbert, spattered with the blood of God’s priests, stripped of all its furnishing.”

Landscape Study from Barbizon, 1878

Oil on canvas, 45 x 55 cm. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

Sculpture Garden, 1881

Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm. Private collection

Idyll, 1880-1882

Oil on canvas, 70 x 48 cm. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

October, 1882

Watercolour on paper, 73 x 54.5 cm. Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg

The Pond in Grez-sur-Loing, 1883

Watercolour on paper, 54 x 77 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris

The different types of ships varied from warships and cargo ships – the so called Knarr