DOI issue:
No. 132 ( March, 1904)
DOI article:Tallberg, Axel: Modern painting in Sweden
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0121
Modern Painting in Sweden
to accept any honours
or distinctions conferred
upon them, singly or
as a body, direct or
indirect, by the Academy,
until that institution
should decide in favour
of the re-organisation
demanded.
The opponents forth-
with incorporated them-
selves, and had shortly
afterwards a very strong
society, "The League
of Artists," to set against
the retarding influence
of the Academy. This
redoubtable League since
then has given the sorely-
troubled Academicians
"a spring night:" water-colour and charcoal by gunnar hallstrom many a hard and bitter
nut to crack.
The modern art of
to their duty, the young artists of Sweden, at home Sweden is the young and beloved child of
and abroad, agreed that this state of things could that resolute new Society. " The League"
no longer be tolerated. Adding this well-founded has worked hard from the very beginning, and
grievance to a great many others accumulated year after year it has had excellent exhibitions,
during scores of years, and all bearing against both at home and abroad. It may be justly
the same venerable institution, they, in 1885, said that it has given the world a splendid
first asked for and then resolutely demanded example of what can be achieved by inflexible
a revision of statutes, reorganisation of the persistence of purpose and a never-failing good-will,
schools, and many other just and proper I will not say that this society has not, like all
measures towards the better management of the rest, suffered from temporary indispositions. It
affairs pertaining to
the furtherance of art in
Sweden.
It was not likely that
the Academy would
accept these proposals
from "that revolutionary
crowd"; and they con-
sequently replied that
they could not consider
them at all. Upon this
the "opponents," as
the malcontents were then
called, there and then
decided to henceforth shift
for themselves without
any aid or help of any
description from the
Academy. They even
went so far as to solemnly
pledge themselves not "after rain
104
by kritz karfve
to accept any honours
or distinctions conferred
upon them, singly or
as a body, direct or
indirect, by the Academy,
until that institution
should decide in favour
of the re-organisation
demanded.
The opponents forth-
with incorporated them-
selves, and had shortly
afterwards a very strong
society, "The League
of Artists," to set against
the retarding influence
of the Academy. This
redoubtable League since
then has given the sorely-
troubled Academicians
"a spring night:" water-colour and charcoal by gunnar hallstrom many a hard and bitter
nut to crack.
The modern art of
to their duty, the young artists of Sweden, at home Sweden is the young and beloved child of
and abroad, agreed that this state of things could that resolute new Society. " The League"
no longer be tolerated. Adding this well-founded has worked hard from the very beginning, and
grievance to a great many others accumulated year after year it has had excellent exhibitions,
during scores of years, and all bearing against both at home and abroad. It may be justly
the same venerable institution, they, in 1885, said that it has given the world a splendid
first asked for and then resolutely demanded example of what can be achieved by inflexible
a revision of statutes, reorganisation of the persistence of purpose and a never-failing good-will,
schools, and many other just and proper I will not say that this society has not, like all
measures towards the better management of the rest, suffered from temporary indispositions. It
affairs pertaining to
the furtherance of art in
Sweden.
It was not likely that
the Academy would
accept these proposals
from "that revolutionary
crowd"; and they con-
sequently replied that
they could not consider
them at all. Upon this
the "opponents," as
the malcontents were then
called, there and then
decided to henceforth shift
for themselves without
any aid or help of any
description from the
Academy. They even
went so far as to solemnly
pledge themselves not "after rain
104
by kritz karfve