Carl Larsson (May 28, 1853 - January 22, 1919) is a representative of the Swedish painter of the Arts and Crafts movement. Many of his paintings include oil, watercolors, and frescoes. He considers his best work to be Midvinterblot ( Middle-Eastern Sacrifice ), a large painting now featured in the National Museum of Fine Arts of Sweden.
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Biography
Larsson was born on May 28, 1853 in the old town of Stockholm, at 78 Próstgatan. Her parents are very poor, and her childhood is not happy.
Renate Puvogel, in his book Larsson , provides detailed information about Carl's life: "His mother was expelled from home, along with Carl and his brother Johan; after experiencing a series of temporary residences, the family moved to Grev MagnigrÃÆ'¤nd No. 7 (later No. 5) in what was then LadugÃÆ'  ¥ rdsplan, now ÃÆ' â € "stermalm". As a rule, each room is home to three families; "Penury, dirt and vice flourish there, casually flush and moisten the body and soul that is devoured and rotten." Such an environment is a natural breeding ground for cholera, "he writes in his autobiographical novel Me ( Jag ).
Larsson's father worked as an ordinary laborer, sailing as a stocker on a ship to Scandinavia, and losing rent to a nearby factory, only to work there later as a mere grain bearer. Larsson describes him as a man without love who has no self-control; he drank, babbled and babbled, and took out his son's lifelong anger after his explosion, "I cursed the day you were born". Instead, Carl's mother worked long hours as a laundry man to support her family.
However, at the age of thirteen, his teacher Jacobsen, in a school for poor children urged him to enroll in the "principskola" of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, and he was accepted. During his first years there, Larsson felt socially inferior, confused, and shy. In 1869, at the age of sixteen, he was promoted to the "antique school" of the same academy. There, Larsson gained confidence, and even became a central figure in student life. Carl earned his first medal in nude drawing. Meanwhile, Larsson worked as a caricature for the cute paper Kasper and as a graphic artist for the newspaper Ny Illustrerad Tidning . His annual wages are enough to enable him to help support his parents financially.
After several years working as an illustrator of books, magazines, and newspapers, Larsson moved to Paris in 1877, where he spent several frustrating years as a hard-working artist without success. Larsson did not want to establish contact with the progressive French Impressionists; on the contrary, along with other Swedish artists, he separated himself from the radical change movement.
After spending two summers in Barbizon, a plein-air painter's protector, he settled with his Swedish painter in 1882 at Grez-sur-Loing, at a Scandinavian artist colony outside Paris. It was there that he met the artist Karin BergÃÆ'¶ÃÆ'¶, who soon became his wife. This became a turning point in Larsson's life. At Grez, Larsson painted some of his most important works, now in watercolors and quite different from the oil painting techniques he had previously worn.
Carl and Karin Larsson had eight children (Suzanne (1884), Ulf (1887, who died at 18), Pontus (1888), Lisbeth (1891), Brita (1893), Mats (1894, who died in 2 months), Kersti (1896) and EsbjÃÆ'¶rn (1900)) and his family became Larsson's favorite model. Much of the interior depicted is the work of Karin Larsson, who also works as an interior designer.
In 1888 a young family was given a small house, named Little HyttnÃÆ'¤s, in Sundborn by Karin's father, Adolf BergÃÆ'¶ÃÆ'¶. Carl and Karin decorate and furnish this house according to their special artistic tastes and also for the needs of the growing family.
In his last years he suffered from depression. While working in a large decoration for the Nationalmuseum's front hall, Larsson's "Midvinterblot" begins the beginning of eye problems and worsening headaches. After suffering a mild stroke in January 1919, he spent the rest of his time finishing his memoirs. He died in Falun on January 22, 1919.
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Painting
Through his paintings and books, Little HyttnÃÆ'¤s has become one of the most famous home artists in the world, exuding the artistic sense of its creator and making it an outline in Swedish interior design. The descendants of Carl and Karin Larsson now own this home and remain open to tourists every summer from May to October.
Larsson's popularity increased rapidly with the development of color reproduction technology in the 1890s, when the Swedish publisher Bonnier published a book written and illustrated by Larsson and contained a full-color reproduction of his watercolor, titled A Home . However, the prints from this rather expensive album did not come close to being produced in 1909 by German publisher Karl Robert Langewiesche (1874-1931). Langewiesche's choice of watercolor, drawings and text by Carl Larsson, titled Das Haus in der Sonne ( Home in the Sun ), soon became one of the best publishing industries in Germany sellers of the year this - 40,000 copies sold in three months, and over 40 print runs have been produced until 2001. Carl and Karin Larsson claim themselves to be overwhelmed by the success.
Larsson also drew several sequential illustrations, making it one of the earliest Swedish comic makers.
Carl Larsson considers his monumental works, such as his paintings in schools, museums, and other public buildings, becoming his most important work. His last monumental work, Midvinterblot ( Mid-Winter Victims ), 6-by-14 meter oil painting (20Ã, ft ÃÆ' â € "46Ã,f) was completed in the year 1915, has been assigned to a wall at the National Museum in Stockholm (which already has some of its wall paintings adorning the walls). However, once completed, it was rejected by the museum board. The painting depicts the king of Domalde at the Temple of Uppsala. A few decades later, the painting was purchased and placed at the National Museum.
Legacy
In his memoir Jag ( I ) - published after Larsson's death - he expressed his bitterness and disappointment over the rejection of the painting which he perceived as his greatest achievement: "The fate of Midvinterblot destroyed me This is a dark anger, and still, it's probably the best thing that can happen, because my intuition tells me-once again! -that this painting, with all its weaknesses, someday, when I go, feel honored with a much better placement. "
However, Larsson admits, in the same memoir that his family and home photographs "became the fastest and lasting part of my life's work, for these images are, of course, very genuine expressions of my personality, my deepest feelings, of all love unlimited me for my wife and my children. "
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