Studio: international art (12.1898)

Swedish Art

An artist who especially attracts attention is An artist who infallibly awakes interest and

Carl Nordstrom. He grew up on a dismal and attracts attention, and who has only of late suc-

austere island on the west coast of Sweden ; later ceeded in gaining recognition, is Eugen Janson.

he went out into the world, and like most of our His field of work is, however, very restricted, both

painters, he studied in Paris and returned; and as to subject and to colour. On most of his

now, as he stands, a mature artist, on his native canvases he has called forth night scenes from the

soil, the hard lines and scanty scenery of the south part of Stockholm, a part of the city piled up

island home of his childhood, with its melancholy on a high cliff, and whose houses are reflected in

lights and shades resting over the desolate ridges the clear, deep waters of Lake Malar, the great

of rock, covered with sun-burned heather, have lake which in the middle of Stockholm abruptly

again captivated him, and with a rare personality of joins an inlet of the Baltic.

art, he has given expression to these melancholy Anshelm Schultzberg is also one of our younger

tones. artists who has worked his way to the front. Two

Prince Eugen is a lyric landscape painter who large canvases of his are attracting particular at-

possesses unique charms. His art will, however, tention. One represents beltane fires in Bergslagen

be more minutely treated in another article in The (Valborgsmessoeldar-Walpurgis or beltane fires).

Studio, and I will consequently pass it by here. To the Swedes, who are, more than the majority of

nations, great lovers of
nature, Walpurgisday (the

and further away across
the whole country side, and

portrait of himself by zorn a very good opportunity for

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