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has shown evidence of skill in that art both in point of knowledge and
refinement: the fresco "Dressing the Maypole" (in the Norra Latin Secondary
School, Stockholm), the decorations of the Music Hall in Östermalm Secondary
School and in that of Jönköping are his foremost works.
Three artists, who, both within the country’s frontiers and beyond them,
represent modern Swedish art, are Carl Larsson (born 1S53), Anders Zorn
(born 1860), and Bruno Liljefors (born I860). The first is a fresco painter
— the wall-pictures in the National Museum — and has painted ceiling
decorations in oils in the Opera House and the Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, and
wall-paintings in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Norrköping schools. He is an
water-colour painter of motives from home-life, a lithographer, and etcher. Combining
intimacy with a strong attitude and powerful personality, his style is marked
by genius, and this prolific artist is uniquely popular.
Anders Zorn, equally great as both painter and etcher, may take his place
with Rodin as the best known living artist in the world. His paintings are
impressionist portraits and scenes from Dalarne, and he shows a wonderful
power in nude studies. Especial mention should be made of the portrait of
Oscar II, with its fulness of character, and "After the Bath", in the possession
of C’. R. Lamm. Zorn has no living rival in etching.
Bruno Liljefors depicts Swedish forests. He shows a marked preference for
wild beasts in their retreats, seagulls on foaming wavecrests, owls and foxes
in recesses of the woods, and his originality and skill are such as to have
endeared him to Sweden, as one of her devotees to open scenery.
Richard Bergh (born 1858) has produced little, but his spirited attempts show
deep emotion in his few but distinguished likeness. We may specially cite
the portraits of Professor Warburg, Gustav Fröding, Miss Eva Bonnier, August
Strindberg, and the group "the Artists’ League Committee".
Mrs Hanna Hirsch-Pauli (born 1864) has attained more depth and power in
art than any other of the lady-painters of Sweden. Among lady-artists ought
also to be mentioned Miss Charlotte Wahlström (born 1840) and Miss Harriet
Sundström (born 1872).
Among modern landscape pointers, Karl Nordström (born 1855) fills his
canvasses with strenuous manhood, and Eugen Jansson (born 1862) elicits a
powerful spirit of harmony. The technique and interpretation of both these artists
stamp them as vigorous and original personalities. J. A. G. Acke (born 1859)
is fanciful but has done happy work in sea-scapes. Herman Norrman (1864
—1906), is distinguished as a colourist, and has done some important land-scapes.
Nils Kreuger (born 1858) is in the best sense one of Swedens genuine
artists; his fame is derived from drawing individuals, and a strong touch of
decorative power; his horse and cattle pictures from Öland and Halland form,
each in its own landscape, an artistic whole.
Axel Sjöberg (born 1866) has reproduced in strong tints bird life in the
sunshine of the eastern archipelago. Otto Hesselbom (1848—1913) devoted
himself to expansive views of woodland, and purple mountain ridges, and
Carl Wilhelmson (born 1866), though hard and rugged, is an artistic exponent
of the people and scenery of Bohuslän.
Prince Eugen (born 1865) is pre-eminent in one typical detail of Swedish
scenery — viz. the nights in summer. He is equally prominent as an artist
and a patron of art; and his principal renderings of Stockholm scenery have,
during the last few years, developed a style that is really monumental:
wall-paintings in the Norra Latin Secondary School, in that of Östermalm, and the
altarpiece in Kiruna.
Gösta von Hennigs (born 1866) uses strong colouring for the cosmopolitan
life of the circus and variety stage. Gustaf Fjæstad (born 1868) is a painter
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