DOI Heft:
No. 93 (November, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Oliver, Maude I. G.: Swedish art at the St. Louis exposition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26963#0071
Swedish Art at St. Louis
Star, by this aitist, is exceedingly poetic. Eleven
years ago, when the young Schultzberg carried off
an important medal from Chicago, the critics felt
secure in presaging a future for this youth, who
even then was known as “ The Snow Painter; ”
and the prophets have not been disappointed in
their prediction. To day Mr. Schultzberg’s work
displays a personal tone and an element of virility
that easily distinguish his manner as both convinc-
ing and impressive. A calm dignity pervades his
canvas entitled Winter Evening.; in which a forest
of evergreens appears beyond the snow-covered
hill, and from a cleft in which stretches a single
towering pine that binds the lake, the distant
mountains, and the sky to the note of white
in the snow. The songs of music and the song of
art are so closely allied that nature’s melody
may often be a common theme for musician and
artist alike, so that one finds oneself wondering
whether the fact that Mr. Schultzberg is also a
musician accounts for the ability he possesses to
attune his brush to the harmonies of his romantic
land. At all events, a decided minor chord is
struck in his subject, called The Blizzard., where
the very spirit of the Norseman, who laughed in the
teeth of the storm, seems aroused in the swirl of
the snow, sweeping over intrepid pines, whose
branches yield in obedience to the wild caprice of
the tempest. Alfred Bergstrom, who excels in
paintings of sunsets over forests, bays, and mountains,
shows a typical work illustrating in a true and
imposing way the peculiar shading of a sunset in
the Northland. Erik Hedberg’s Fox in Moonlight
is excellent, his August Evening is full of poesy, and
Evening in the Wilderness, from the brush of Olof
Arborelius, is a masterly work. Notice should also
be made of the two large paintings by Anton
Genberg and Oscar Hullgren, and of Wilhem
Behm’s Foggy November Day. A work that is
attracting much attention, and that is almost
Corotesque in feeling, is The Midsummer Night by
Knut Borgh. This young painter is one of the two
youngest landscape artists in Sweden. The other,
Miss Esther Almqvist, whose work is likewise
deserving of notice, shows sympathy and decorative
sentiment in her Full Moon in Tuly. Another of
“mother and daughter”
BY CARL LARSSON
55
Star, by this aitist, is exceedingly poetic. Eleven
years ago, when the young Schultzberg carried off
an important medal from Chicago, the critics felt
secure in presaging a future for this youth, who
even then was known as “ The Snow Painter; ”
and the prophets have not been disappointed in
their prediction. To day Mr. Schultzberg’s work
displays a personal tone and an element of virility
that easily distinguish his manner as both convinc-
ing and impressive. A calm dignity pervades his
canvas entitled Winter Evening.; in which a forest
of evergreens appears beyond the snow-covered
hill, and from a cleft in which stretches a single
towering pine that binds the lake, the distant
mountains, and the sky to the note of white
in the snow. The songs of music and the song of
art are so closely allied that nature’s melody
may often be a common theme for musician and
artist alike, so that one finds oneself wondering
whether the fact that Mr. Schultzberg is also a
musician accounts for the ability he possesses to
attune his brush to the harmonies of his romantic
land. At all events, a decided minor chord is
struck in his subject, called The Blizzard., where
the very spirit of the Norseman, who laughed in the
teeth of the storm, seems aroused in the swirl of
the snow, sweeping over intrepid pines, whose
branches yield in obedience to the wild caprice of
the tempest. Alfred Bergstrom, who excels in
paintings of sunsets over forests, bays, and mountains,
shows a typical work illustrating in a true and
imposing way the peculiar shading of a sunset in
the Northland. Erik Hedberg’s Fox in Moonlight
is excellent, his August Evening is full of poesy, and
Evening in the Wilderness, from the brush of Olof
Arborelius, is a masterly work. Notice should also
be made of the two large paintings by Anton
Genberg and Oscar Hullgren, and of Wilhem
Behm’s Foggy November Day. A work that is
attracting much attention, and that is almost
Corotesque in feeling, is The Midsummer Night by
Knut Borgh. This young painter is one of the two
youngest landscape artists in Sweden. The other,
Miss Esther Almqvist, whose work is likewise
deserving of notice, shows sympathy and decorative
sentiment in her Full Moon in Tuly. Another of
“mother and daughter”
BY CARL LARSSON
55