Sun and Snow: Scene from Stockholm

Sun and Snow: Scene from Stockholm

1891

Oil on canvas

Mått 172,00 x 114,00 cm Ram 228,00 x 160,00 x 13,00 cm

GKM 0257

Purchase, 1891

The view shows Nybroviken, on what was then the outskirts of Stockholm, where the artist had his studio. With its warm, shimmering light, a low sun breaks through the frosty haze and reflects off the frozen sea and icy ground. Some angular buildings are grouped at the picture’s left edge. A steamboat makes its way across the water. Next to a lamp post in the foreground are two figures, and farther on, in the empty field that runs down to the quay, people are walking past. During the late 1880s, city outskirts became a popular motif, often depicted as desolate places, caught between city and country, and not to civilization’s best advantage. One could follow how the city organism grew, biting off ever larger areas, transforming ancient cultural landscapes into the lifeless city districts. Yet the city also held an endless fascination, with its myriad of people, its wide streets, and humming factories. Kristoffer Arvidsson from The Collection Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg 2014

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 20/10/1995 - 07/01/1996, no. 16 Reykjavik, Listasafn Íslands, 11/08/1995 - 24/09/1995, no. 12 Barcelona, Museu d'Art Modern del MNAC, 02/06/1995 - 16/07/1995, no. 16 Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 30/03/1995 - 15/05/1995, no. 16 Åbo, Åbo Konstmuseum, 19/09/1991 - 27/10/1991 Göteborg, Göteborgs Konstförening, Valand, 1891

Sixten Strömbom, Konstnärsförbundets historia 2. Nationalromantik och radikalism: 1891–1920, Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm 1965., ill. p. färgplansch II Georg Nordensvan, Svensk konst och svenska konstnärer i nittonde århundradet. II. Från Karl XV till sekelslutet, Ny, grundligt omarbetad upplaga, Albert Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm (1925) 1928, p. 323, 417 Madrid, Museo Nacional Cantro de Arte Sofía, Luz del Norte/Llum del Nord/The Light of the North, red. Cristina Torra León, 1995., no. 16, p. 90, ill. p. 91 Hans Fredrik Dahl, Kasper Monrad, Júlíana Gottskálksdóttir, Soili Sinisalo, Hans Henrik Brummer, Ljós úr Nordri. Norræn aldamótalist/The Light of the North, red. Bera Nordal, 1995., no. 12, p. 76, ill. p. 77 Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Nordiskt sekelskifte/The Light of the North, red. Karin Sidén, Kaspar Monrad, 1995., no. 16, p. 82, ill. p. 83 Karl Wåhlin, "Pehr Hasselberg. Med 12 bilder", Ord & Bild, 1894, p. 238 Manne Hofrén, Per Ekström. Människan och målaren, Norstedts, Stockholm 1947, p. 173, 176, 194, ill. p. 174, fig. 58 Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Björn Fredlund, Anna Hyltze, Philippa Nanfeldt, Isabella Nilsson, Johan Sjöström, Samlingen Göteborgs konstmuseum, red. Kristoffer Arvidsson, Per Dahlström, Anna Hyltze, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborg 2014., p. 207, ill. p. 206