DOI issue:
Nr. 159 (May 1910)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0318
Studio- Talk
"A SWEDISH LANDSCAPE" BY GOTTFRID KALLSTENIUS
strength. He is, together with Liljefors and Karl r | TORONTO.—It has been said that the art
Nordstrom, the most prominent painter of the of a nation must always develop along
Swedish coast; but the kind of landscape that he lines parallel with its customs, culture
prefers to paint has not the severe beauty and and ideals. Canada is a young country
grandeur of the pictures of rocks and sea, without and a long way from possessing a national school
a green spot, which both the just mentioned great of art, but it is exceedingly interesting and instruc-
masters have created. Kallstenius has chosen his tive to study the character of (so to speak) the
motives in a part of Sweden where the coast is not mother of that school, as we may see it in such
so barren as in Bohnslan or the outer archipelago exhibitions as that of the Canadian Art Club; to
of Stockholm, the favourite places of Nordstrom watch the gradual strengthening of the parent
and Liljefors. He likes to paint the strong and thought by the reception of those impressions
beautiful effect of the dark green firs and pine trees from nature which will one day form that offspring
standing out against the deep blue sea. Also as a so indispensable to the regeneration and refine-
painter of snow Kallstenius is one of the very best ment of the world in which it lives and moves,
in Sweden at the present day. His Thunder Cloud, The club is a young organisation, but it has already
reproduced opposite, is something new in his pro- done much for the furtherance of art in Canada,
duction, and gives an impressive moment in the It has enrolled within its ranks men who have
life of nature. His manly and somewhat austere achieved greatness abroad, and has been the means
art is always winning new admirers. T. L. of their work being shown to their countrymen, in
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"A SWEDISH LANDSCAPE" BY GOTTFRID KALLSTENIUS
strength. He is, together with Liljefors and Karl r | TORONTO.—It has been said that the art
Nordstrom, the most prominent painter of the of a nation must always develop along
Swedish coast; but the kind of landscape that he lines parallel with its customs, culture
prefers to paint has not the severe beauty and and ideals. Canada is a young country
grandeur of the pictures of rocks and sea, without and a long way from possessing a national school
a green spot, which both the just mentioned great of art, but it is exceedingly interesting and instruc-
masters have created. Kallstenius has chosen his tive to study the character of (so to speak) the
motives in a part of Sweden where the coast is not mother of that school, as we may see it in such
so barren as in Bohnslan or the outer archipelago exhibitions as that of the Canadian Art Club; to
of Stockholm, the favourite places of Nordstrom watch the gradual strengthening of the parent
and Liljefors. He likes to paint the strong and thought by the reception of those impressions
beautiful effect of the dark green firs and pine trees from nature which will one day form that offspring
standing out against the deep blue sea. Also as a so indispensable to the regeneration and refine-
painter of snow Kallstenius is one of the very best ment of the world in which it lives and moves,
in Sweden at the present day. His Thunder Cloud, The club is a young organisation, but it has already
reproduced opposite, is something new in his pro- done much for the furtherance of art in Canada,
duction, and gives an impressive moment in the It has enrolled within its ranks men who have
life of nature. His manly and somewhat austere achieved greatness abroad, and has been the means
art is always winning new admirers. T. L. of their work being shown to their countrymen, in
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