DOI Heft:
No. 161 (August, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Bröchner, Georg: Some nothern painters and their homes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20715#0241
Northern Painters and their Homes
The Northern artists, which in
this case means Danes, Swedes, and
Norwegians, are no exception to the
above rule—rather the reverse, I
fancy ; and some illustrations from
their homes, chosen more or less at
random and of a necessity subject to
the limitations of space, coupled
with a few explanatory notes, may
be of some interest to the readers
of a journal like The Studio. On
my wanderings I have had the
pleasure of visiting most of the
homes depicted in the following
pages, and others besides, which I
should like to have seen added to
the list had space permitted.
INTERIOR OF BARONESS SPARRE S HOUSE AT RATTVIK _ , , , , ,
The place of honour should be
so many artists. I shall not, however,
be committing myself, I think, by attri-
buting it to a complexity of diverse
causes, conspicuous amongst which is
an independent and individual taste—
and a corresponding, more or less
Bohemian, disregard of commonplace
conventionalism—aided by a cultured
and susceptible eye and coupled with a
fervent appreciation of the beautiful
wherever found. Besides, an artist is
generally a much-travelled man, with
better opportunities than most of collect-
ing articles of decorative merit; finally,
he is not, as a rule, tied to the immediate
vicinity of great cities, and, like the
monks of old, he very often hits upon
a place of peculiar beauty for his home.
BARONESS SPARRE'S SUMMER RESIDENCE, RATTVIK
given to Prince Eugen of Sweden, who
has painted most of his admirable pic-
tures in his old studio in the royal
palace of Stockholm. Of late, however,
the Prince, as he is generally called
amongst his confreres, has taken up his
abode at the commodious villa he has
built at picturesque Valdemarsudde, just
outside Stockholm, where he, as true an
artist as any, hospitably gathers round
him some of his most distinguished
brethren of the brush, with whom Prince
Eugen, deservedly, is extremely popular.
His new villa, designed by the eminent
Swedish architect, M. Boberg, is remark-
balcony at baroness sparre’s summer residence able for its refined simplicity, which only
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The Northern artists, which in
this case means Danes, Swedes, and
Norwegians, are no exception to the
above rule—rather the reverse, I
fancy ; and some illustrations from
their homes, chosen more or less at
random and of a necessity subject to
the limitations of space, coupled
with a few explanatory notes, may
be of some interest to the readers
of a journal like The Studio. On
my wanderings I have had the
pleasure of visiting most of the
homes depicted in the following
pages, and others besides, which I
should like to have seen added to
the list had space permitted.
INTERIOR OF BARONESS SPARRE S HOUSE AT RATTVIK _ , , , , ,
The place of honour should be
so many artists. I shall not, however,
be committing myself, I think, by attri-
buting it to a complexity of diverse
causes, conspicuous amongst which is
an independent and individual taste—
and a corresponding, more or less
Bohemian, disregard of commonplace
conventionalism—aided by a cultured
and susceptible eye and coupled with a
fervent appreciation of the beautiful
wherever found. Besides, an artist is
generally a much-travelled man, with
better opportunities than most of collect-
ing articles of decorative merit; finally,
he is not, as a rule, tied to the immediate
vicinity of great cities, and, like the
monks of old, he very often hits upon
a place of peculiar beauty for his home.
BARONESS SPARRE'S SUMMER RESIDENCE, RATTVIK
given to Prince Eugen of Sweden, who
has painted most of his admirable pic-
tures in his old studio in the royal
palace of Stockholm. Of late, however,
the Prince, as he is generally called
amongst his confreres, has taken up his
abode at the commodious villa he has
built at picturesque Valdemarsudde, just
outside Stockholm, where he, as true an
artist as any, hospitably gathers round
him some of his most distinguished
brethren of the brush, with whom Prince
Eugen, deservedly, is extremely popular.
His new villa, designed by the eminent
Swedish architect, M. Boberg, is remark-
balcony at baroness sparre’s summer residence able for its refined simplicity, which only
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