Vera Nilsson (1888 - 1979)

Landscape, Öland

Title
Landscape, Öland
Dating
1926
Material/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Mått 112,50 x 120,00 cm Ram 133,50 x 141,50 x 3,50 cm
Inventory number
GKM 1015
Acquisition
Gift of Theodor and Hanne Mannheimer's Fund, 1936
Description
In the great Landscape, Öland, Nature seems burned and ravaged. A steam train—still a popular symbol of modernity—is rushing into the picture. A collection of houses can be seen in the background, and there further human presence in form of two barely distinguishable people, seated on the ground in the inhospitable landscape. Philippa Nanfeldt from The Collection Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg 2014
Signature/Inscription
Signature: VN
Exhibition History
Trondheim, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, 01/07/2007 - 07/10/2007, no. 60 Göteborg, Göteborgs konstmuseum, 28/02/2007 - 27/05/2007, no. 60 Köpenhamn, GL Strand, 28/10/2006 - 28/01/2007, no. 60
Literature
Lisbeth Larsson, Sanne Kofod Olsen, Signe Endresen et al, Moderna kvinnor. Kvindelige malere i Norden 1910–1930, red. Maj Dannemand, GL Strand, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Köpenhamn, Göteborg, Trondheim 2006., no. 60, ill. p. 77 Mikela Lundahl, Eva Ström, Birgitta Flensburg, Vera Nilsson, red. Mårten Castenfors, Birgitta Flensburg, Louise Fogelström, Liljevalchs, Mjellby konstmuseum, Norrköpings konstmuseum, Stockholm 2014., ill. p. 67 Barbro Ahlfort, Lena Boëthius, Ingmari Desaix, Folke Edwards, Björn Fredlund, Jonas Gavel, Barbro Löfquist, Anne Pettersson, Håkan Wettre, Göteborgs konstmuseum dess historia och samlingar, red. Håkan Wettre, Palmeblad, Göteborg 1992., p. 123, ill. p. 123 Nils-Olof Olsson, Sverige genom konstnärens öga, Arena, Malmö, 2020., ill. p. 241 Patrik Steorn och Eva Nygårds och Johan Ranch, Ny konst. Charlotte Mannheimer och modernismens intåg i Göteborg/Ny konst: Charlotte Mannheimer and the Rise of Modernism in Gothenburg, 2024., ill. p. 84