Comfortable, home watercolors Carl Larsson

 

 

 

 

 

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Breakfast under a birch tree, watercolor, 1896

 

 

Carl Larsson (Larsson) (1853-1919), a Swedish painter, graphic artist and writer. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Stockholm (1869-72). Author decorative panels and paintings on historical themes (fresco in the National Museum in Stockholm, 1894-1908), landscape, expressive portraits on drawing ("Oscar Levertin" 1906, Thiel Gallery, Stockholm), illustrations and caricatures albums with scenes of domestic life made in the technique of oil, watercolors, etchings ("My Family", 1895; "Larson", 1902). 

Christmas Eve (1904-05), watercolor

 

 

 

 

 

Authentic biography of Carl Larsson's work is written by him: the artist's work was closely connected with the circumstances of his life. Paintings Larsson - no figment of the imagination of the artist; most of his watercolor paintings done from life and is a kind of diary of the master. Larsson was a supporter of compactness, a partial image of planar objects and solutions specific to the Japanese woodcut, his illustrations were also peculiar subtlety eastern pencil and ink drawings. Through this personal style of the artist fit into the overall context of Art Nouveau with its decorative and refinement. Carl Larsson became popular in Sweden thanks genre watercolors, which takes place in his estate, where he and his wife - also an artist - created a very picturesque setting, which has become the personification of? Typical Swedish house ?. That is, most of the paintings Larsson - no figment of the imagination of the artist; most of his watercolor paintings done from life and is a kind of diary of the master.