Autumn

Autumn

1891

Oil on canvas

Mått 120,00 x 151,00 cm Ram 151,50 x 182,00 x 15,00 cm

GKM 0263

Purchase, 1892

Erik Werenskiold’s painting was done at Solberg Farm in Bærum, outside Oslo, where he lived from the autumn of 1889 to the spring of 1896. Large farm buildings of the type shown here came with the modernization of Norwegian agriculture in the mid nineteenth century. Instead of numerous small outbuildings, each with its own function, the barn, stables, storerooms were now collected into large multi-purpose buildings. Erik Werenskiold was the leading Norwegian landscape painter of the 1880s. He was influenced by Naturalism and the French plein-air style during his studies in Paris. After returning to Norway in 1883, his paintings took on a more National Romantic flavour. He painted peasants and the Telemark countryside. This view of the farmhouse is ordinary in temper, yet with an atmosphere and ambiance that set it apart from the more prosaic Naturalism’s harsh and unforgiving light. Kristoffer Arvidsson from The Collection Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg 2014

Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet, 10/06/2011 - 11/09/2011, no. 42 Åbo, Åbo Konstmuseum, 19/09/1991 - 27/10/1991 Paris, Musée du petit palais, 21/02/1987 - 17/05/1987, no. 128 Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 26/10/1986 - 01/02/1987, no. 103 Oslo, 1891

Im Lichtes des Nordens. Skandinavische Malerei um die Jahrhundertwende, Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1986, no. 103, p. 288-289, ill. p. 289 Paris, Musée du petit palais, Lumières du Nord. La peinture scandinave 1885–1905, 1987., no. 128, p. 346, ill. p. 347 Ellen J. Lerberg, ”’thi portraiter morer mig’. Werenskiold i 1890-årene”, Erik Werenskiold 1855–1938, 10 juni–11 september 2011, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo 2011., no. 42, p. 57-59, ill. p. 58, 120 Nils Ohlsen, Øystein Ustvedt, Ellen Lerberg, Erik Mørstad, Erik Werenskiold 1855–1938, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo 2011., no. 42, p. 57-59, ill. p. 58, 120 Axel L. Romdahl, Göteborgs konstmuseum. Tvåhundra bilder med inledande text av Axel L. Romdahl, Medéns bokhandels aktiebolag, Göteborg 1925., ill. p. 223 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. 207