Seaweed Carters, Halland Coast

Seaweed Carters, Halland Coast

1898

Oil on canvas

Mått 90,00 x 129,00 cm Ram 95,50 x 134,00 x 4,00 cm

GKM 0301

Purchase, 1898

Storm clouds loom on the horizon. The blue sky is reflected in the wet sand of the beach, where the horses are pulling their loads of seaweed to land to be used as fertilizer. Water fills the ruts that cut diagonally across the image; in the foreground, dark seaweed meanders in an Art Nouveau curlicue across the pale sand. Kreuger’s sensitive account captures the hues and atmosphere of the coast, but is also a credible portrayal of people hard at work. Kristoffer Arvidsson from The Collection Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg 2014

Åbo, Åbo Konstmuseum, 19/09/1991 - 27/10/1991

Birgit Rausing, "Måleriet", Signums svenska konsthistoria. Konsten 1890–1915, Bokförlaget Signum, Lund 2001, p. 263, ill. p. 262 Michelle Facos, Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination. Swedish Art of the 1890s, University of California Press, Berkley, Los Angeles, London 1998, p. 59, ill. p. fig. 26, 60 Axel Gauffin, Nils Kreuger. 60 reproduktioner i tontryck efter fotografier af originalen, Gleerupska universitets-bokhandeln, Lund 1926, ill. p. 23 Axel L. Romdahl, Göteborgs konstmuseum. Tvåhundra bilder med inledande text av Axel L. Romdahl, Medéns bokhandels aktiebolag, Göteborg 1925., ill. p. 181 Axel L. Romdahl, Konstmonologer i Göteborgs Museum, P. A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm (1911) 1921, p. 66 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. 224-225, ill. p. 225 Nils-Olof Olsson, Sverige genom konstnärens öga, red., Arena, Malmö, 2020., ill. p. 165 Art Nouveau. Från Larssons till Zappa., red.., ill. p. 128