DOI issue:
Nr. 169 (March, 1911)
DOI article:Benoit-Lévy, Georges: A Swedish sculptore; Carl J. Eldh
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43446#0074
A Swedish Sculptor, Ccirl /. Eldh
“MOTHER” BY CARL J. ELDH
the names of all the great
contemporary artists —
Nordstrom, Kreiiger, Zorn,
Eva Bonnier, Georg Pauli,
Prince Eugen, and that
admirable sculptor, Per
Hasselberg, whose works,
The Charge, The Snowdrop,
The Grandfather, &c., are
universally acknowledged
to be masterpieces.
An artist who has shown
himself to be a most worthy
scion of the new school,
and has followed most
faithfully the tradition be-
queathed by Hasselberg,
who died, aias ! before he
reached the age of fifty, is
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Carl J. Eldh. To say that he has followed a tradition is, per-
haps, using an inexact expression, for whatever influence his
predecessors or his long, sojourn in Paris may have had upon
his work, it is above all to his own inspiration and his innate
genius that Eldh owes his inclusion with the great artists of our
day. To comprehend Eldh’s work it is necessary to know the
man, and I will therefore reproduce here the notes taken down
at his dictation in his studio.
“ I was born at Dannemora in 1873, and here I remained with
my parents till I was thirteen years old, that is to say, until the
time when I had to start to earn my own living. After some
years of work in a carpenter’s shop, I obtained a situation with
a firm of decorators in Upsala. In this town I followed a course
of study in the technical school, and was also employed upon
the work of the restoration of the cathedral. In 1891 I went to
“THE PAINTER, KARL NORDSTROM
BY CARL J. ELDH
“MOTHER” BY CARL J. ELDH
the names of all the great
contemporary artists —
Nordstrom, Kreiiger, Zorn,
Eva Bonnier, Georg Pauli,
Prince Eugen, and that
admirable sculptor, Per
Hasselberg, whose works,
The Charge, The Snowdrop,
The Grandfather, &c., are
universally acknowledged
to be masterpieces.
An artist who has shown
himself to be a most worthy
scion of the new school,
and has followed most
faithfully the tradition be-
queathed by Hasselberg,
who died, aias ! before he
reached the age of fifty, is
26
Carl J. Eldh. To say that he has followed a tradition is, per-
haps, using an inexact expression, for whatever influence his
predecessors or his long, sojourn in Paris may have had upon
his work, it is above all to his own inspiration and his innate
genius that Eldh owes his inclusion with the great artists of our
day. To comprehend Eldh’s work it is necessary to know the
man, and I will therefore reproduce here the notes taken down
at his dictation in his studio.
“ I was born at Dannemora in 1873, and here I remained with
my parents till I was thirteen years old, that is to say, until the
time when I had to start to earn my own living. After some
years of work in a carpenter’s shop, I obtained a situation with
a firm of decorators in Upsala. In this town I followed a course
of study in the technical school, and was also employed upon
the work of the restoration of the cathedral. In 1891 I went to
“THE PAINTER, KARL NORDSTROM
BY CARL J. ELDH