Scene from Lake Torne

Scene from Lake Torne

Oil on panel

Mått 50,00 x 84,50 cm Ram 61,50 x 95,50 x 5,00 cm

GKM 0685

Gift of Conrad M Pineus, 1920

Leander Engström is one of the Swedish artists who brought modernism to Sweden. Scene from Lake Torne show an open landscape with water, occasional trees in autumn scrub and some mountains in the background. The air feels clear. The artist has worked with visible brush strokes and broken down the subject into pure colour touches and slightly cubic forms to anchor the subject to the surface. In this way, a play arises between image depth and decorative surface effect. Kristoffer Arvidsson

Axel L. Romdahl, Konstmonologer i Göteborgs Museum, P. A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm (1911) 1921, p. 77-79, ill. p. 79