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The Water Sprite by Ernst Josephson, 1882

Impressionist / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This a reproduction of Ernst Josephson’s 1882 masterpiece, “The Water Sprite” or “Strömkarlen” in Swedish.  Creating this masterpiece at the age of thirty-one, Josephson was from a prominent Jewish family in Sweden.  He contracted syphilis and became mentally ill in 1888 while in Brittany.  Plagued by religious hallucinations and delusions, he was returned to Uppsala where he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia.  He continued to paint and also wrote poetry.  He died in Stockholm, the city of his birth, on November 22, 1906.  This masterpiece is currently at the National Museum of Sweden.

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