DOI Heft:
No. 374 (May 1924)
DOI Artikel:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0309
STOCKHOLM
STOCKHOLM. — Among the various
paths to fame, one of the surest is
that of concentration on a subject with a
more or less powerful sense of one's own
limitations. If these qualities are accom-
panied by inexhaustible energy and an
ardent desire for expression, the resulting
work is bound to be still more outstanding
and remarkable. Bruno Liljefors, the
celebrated Swedish animal painter, fol-
lowed this path, and it brought him rapidly
to the forefront of modern Swedish art.
Strongly attracted, from early boyhood,
-by the open-air existence of his country's
mysterious forests, he soon became a very
close observer of the life and habits of
the wild animals. He showed how the
wily fox lives, and was equally at home
in depicting the ways of the peaceful duck
and other water-birds, rendering each
kind of animal in its appropriate surround-
ings. He conveys his impressions with
a convincing simplicity, interpreting with
an equal sureness of eye and hand the
aspects of the underwood in winter, the
mist-covered swamps in autumn, the
.290
"SPRING NIGHT.” BY
BRUNO LILJEFORS
(By courtesy of M. C. E. Fritze)
smiling landscapes of summer or rugged
islands of granite, battered by the waves
and ice-floes of the Baltic Sea. He is
honest and sincere in everything he does;
he works hard and is very prolific.
He portrays simply, with his profoundly
artistic sensibility, that which he sees with
the eye of the hunter and that which is
revealed to him by his love of nature and
animals. a 0 0 a a
All his life, Lilj efors has remained reserved
and taciturn, little drawn to the society
of his fellow men, but devoting most of
his days to the study of the life which
peoples the woods, plains, lakes and coasts
of his northern land. He has never lived
in a town, preferring to be surrounded
by his favoured models. a a a
In using the various phases of animal life
for his artistic purpose, he has never paid
tribute to the sentimentality or anecdotal
feeling which some animal painters have
employed, either giving the animals human
expressions or displaying them in more
or less dramatic or humorous situations.
Louis Sparre.
STOCKHOLM. — Among the various
paths to fame, one of the surest is
that of concentration on a subject with a
more or less powerful sense of one's own
limitations. If these qualities are accom-
panied by inexhaustible energy and an
ardent desire for expression, the resulting
work is bound to be still more outstanding
and remarkable. Bruno Liljefors, the
celebrated Swedish animal painter, fol-
lowed this path, and it brought him rapidly
to the forefront of modern Swedish art.
Strongly attracted, from early boyhood,
-by the open-air existence of his country's
mysterious forests, he soon became a very
close observer of the life and habits of
the wild animals. He showed how the
wily fox lives, and was equally at home
in depicting the ways of the peaceful duck
and other water-birds, rendering each
kind of animal in its appropriate surround-
ings. He conveys his impressions with
a convincing simplicity, interpreting with
an equal sureness of eye and hand the
aspects of the underwood in winter, the
mist-covered swamps in autumn, the
.290
"SPRING NIGHT.” BY
BRUNO LILJEFORS
(By courtesy of M. C. E. Fritze)
smiling landscapes of summer or rugged
islands of granite, battered by the waves
and ice-floes of the Baltic Sea. He is
honest and sincere in everything he does;
he works hard and is very prolific.
He portrays simply, with his profoundly
artistic sensibility, that which he sees with
the eye of the hunter and that which is
revealed to him by his love of nature and
animals. a 0 0 a a
All his life, Lilj efors has remained reserved
and taciturn, little drawn to the society
of his fellow men, but devoting most of
his days to the study of the life which
peoples the woods, plains, lakes and coasts
of his northern land. He has never lived
in a town, preferring to be surrounded
by his favoured models. a a a
In using the various phases of animal life
for his artistic purpose, he has never paid
tribute to the sentimentality or anecdotal
feeling which some animal painters have
employed, either giving the animals human
expressions or displaying them in more
or less dramatic or humorous situations.
Louis Sparre.