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428 IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
A Hero’s Death. Picture by N. Forsbekg.
decennial work. A. Jungstedt (born 1859) has studied at home and abroad, and
his first love within the world of art was the depicting of landscapes with quarries
and sandpits and accessories thereto, but, later on, he embraced painting of
portraits, amongst which two of King Oscar are to be noted — one in the »foyen
of the Royal Opera, the other one, a knee-piece in a military cloak and a
general’s cap, taken during a drill. Moreover, he has accomplished plafond
paintings for the Church of St. Olof in Norrköping. Three landscape-painters
here form one group: the oldest is A. Fahlcrantz (born 1851), a lover of
moonlight and dusk and strange effects of light in the clouds, and who chiefly has
taken his motives from the Baltic, outside of Stockholm; the second is G.
Kallstenius (born 1861), who generally paints the nature of Central Sweden with it»
varying scenery of land and lake, mountain and wood, lately fond of producing
strong effects of sunlight, e. g., in Forest lake in the Evening Sun (the
National Museum); the third is A. Schultzberg (born 1862), who has studied in the
South, but spent his talent on winter pictures from his native province, Dalarne,
amongst which Walpurgis-night (the National Museum) with the fantastic light
from the flickering bonfires is the most noteworthy. A. Wallander (born 1862)
has in coloured chalks made characteristic pictures from national life, but is now
modeling and decorating within the sphere of ceramic art. W. Smith (born 1867)
has painted both landscapes and genre-pieces full of character; G. Ankarcrona
(born 1869) has also with genuine Swedish power, especially in the aerial parts,
accomplished landscapes with figures; and A. Bergström (born 1869) is a truly
poetical painter of natural scenery, whether it be pictures from the French coast
or familiar Swedish pasture-grounds and groves.
To the last group, which, properly spoken, made its appearance in 1885 and
then termed itself »Opponents», but in 1891 exhibited its works conjointly with
those of the group just mentioned at the International Exhibition of Munich, where
both did honour to the Swedish name — belong several men of eminent talent,
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