Winter Evening at Roslagstull, Stockholm

Winter Evening at Roslagstull, Stockholm

1897 - 1900

Oil on canvas

Mått 102,00 x 131,00 cm Ram 118,00 x 146,50 x 7,00 cm

GKM 0311

Purchase, 1900

The viewer looks out from a snowy height over a winter landscape on the outskirts of the capital. In the foreground to the right is a group of tenement houses and a walled courtyard with some smaller buildings. Streetlights and lighted windows shine in the dark. In the middle ground there is a stretch of flatter land, perhaps an ice-covered bay. Farther on in the picture the land rises again. There are a few scattered houses and farms in the distance, and the horizon is picked out by the silhouette of a dark forest. The deep blue of the evening sky is reflected in the snow. This was a time when many artists were fascinated by the growth of the city. They returned repeatedly to the urban periphery. They liked to depict the illuminated city with its gas street lighting and electric light. Nordström’s painting shows us the line between town and country, but also a more ill-fated boundary drawn between civilization and the wilds beyond. Kristoffer Arvidsson from The Collection Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg 2014

Stockholm, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, 15/02/2014 - 25/05/2014, no. 30 Åbo, Åbo Konstmuseum, 19/09/1991 - 27/10/1991 Paris, Musée du petit palais, 21/02/1987 - 17/05/1987, no. 80

Sixten Strömbom, Konstnärsförbundets historia 2. Nationalromantik och radikalism: 1891–1920, Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm 1965., p. 114, 173, ill. p. färgplansch XII Dubbelporträtt. Konstnärskap i seklets början, red. Ingamaj Beck och Barbro Waldenström, Natur och Kultur, Stockholm 1995, ill. p. färgplansch Georg Nordensvan, "I Göteborgs Museum. Några intryck af Georg Nordensvan", Ord & Bild, red. Karl Whålin, Ord & Bild/Wahlström & Widstrand, 1906, p. 29 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. 384-385, ill. p. 382 Erik Blomberg, "Karl Nordströms svenska landskap", Konstrevy häfte 6 1929, Svensk-franska konstgalleriets förlag, Stockholm 1929, ill. p. 181 Paris, Musée du petit palais, Lumières du Nord. La peinture scandinave 1885–1905, 1987., no. 80, p. 242, ill. p. 243 Axel Gauffin, Karl Nordström. 60 reproduktioner efter fotografier af originalen, Gleerupska universitets-bokhandeln, Lund , ill. p. 21 Axel L. Romdahl, Göteborgs konstmuseum. Tvåhundra bilder med inledande text av Axel L. Romdahl, Medéns bokhandels aktiebolag, Göteborg 1925., ill. p. 173 Axel L. Romdahl, Konstmonologer i Göteborgs Museum, P. A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm (1911) 1921, p. 65, 66, ill. p. färgplansch 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. 226-227 Karl Nordström. Konstnärernas konstnär, red. Anna Meister och Karin Sidén, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde/Carlsson, Stockholm 2014., no. 30