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Feb 20 2011
Waterfall in Småland, Marcus Larson, 1856
Academician / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Waterfall in Småland” by Marcus Larson of 1856. This wonderful landscape shows a scene located in southern Sweden. It was created by Simeon Marcus Larson, one of Sweden’s greatest nineteenth century painters. This is a fine example of his propensity to depict violent skies and dramatic landscapes featuring violent water courses. He attended the Royal Swedish Academy for Arts when his talents for drawing were noticed by his employer. He graduated by 1848 when he was twenty-three. Thereafter he taught painting and continued to study under various painters. Abroad in Dusseldorf and Paris, he began drawing commissions and returned to Sweden in 1858 and built a villa. It burned in 1860 and he left for Helsinki, St. Petersburg and London. He died of tuberculosis in London at the age of thirty-nine. This masterpiece is the National Museum in Stockholm.
Feb 2 2011
Valkyrie by Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1865
Academician / German / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Peter Nicolai Arbo’s “Valkyrie” of 1865. Arbo was a leading Norwegian painter who specialized in paintings from Norwegian history and mythology. He attended Helsted’s Art School in Copenhagen in 1851 when he was twenty. He went on the study in Dusseldorf and returned to Norway in 1861 where he became a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and of the Order of Vasa. He was a member of the National Gallery Company from 1875 and a director of the Christiana (Oslo) Art Society from 1882. He died in 1892.
The Valkyries were riders of Norse and Teutonic mythology who gleaned the battlefields for the mightiest warriors recently slain. From the Old Norse valkyrja, chooser of the slain, these maidens were usually described as the daughters of Odin, or Wotan, who gathered warriors for Valhalla for the purposed of building an army with which to fight the forces of darkness in Ragnarök. This masterpiece is in the National Museum of Sweden in Stockholm.
Jan 21 2011
Summer Landscape by Ferdinand von Wright, 1877
Academician / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This a reproduction of Ferdinand von Wright’s “Summer Landscape” of 1877. The artist was from Finland and from the age of sixteen worked as an illustrator in Sweden. He returned to his parents’ estate in 1844 when he was twenty-two years old and began a secluded life in which he produced many paintings. In 1885 he was granted a pension by the government. He continued to produce paintings until his death in 1908 despite suffering paralysis beginning in 1884.
Jan 13 2011
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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