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Carl Larsson
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Fan account of Carl Larsson, a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement.
1853-1919
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Convalescence https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/convalescence
Convalescence
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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The Old Man and the New Trees https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/the-old-man-and-the-new-trees-1883
The Old Man and the New Trees
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Cosy Corner. From A Home (26 watercolours) http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24210&viewType=detailView
Carl and Karin Larsson combined new design with old traditions. Practicality dictated their interior design, but it was equally important that furniture and objects form an attractive harmony. This ideal was also propagated by others, including Ellen Key, who advocated homes that were in a new and light style, in her essay “Skönhet för alla” (Beauty for All) in 1899. The Larssons moved to Lilla Hyttnäs, a house in Sundborn, in the summer of 1889. Here, Carl and Karin together created the interiors that made their home famous. Karin designed the furniture and textiles, which she embroidered and wove. A studio was fitted up in one of the hallways. It features many eye-catching details, including the funny man crowning a column. When a larger studio extension was added, this room became a workshop for the whole family. The interiors of the Larsson home were characterised by rural simplicity. Nevertheless, every detail was carefully designed, with influences from England, Scotland and Japan. The kitchen, which was first and foremost a place for household chores, did not display the same modern interior style and comfort as the rest of the house.
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The Bridesmaid http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+999
The Bridesmaid
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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A Swedish Fairy Tale http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=36656&viewType=detailView
  
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Old Sundborn Church https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/old-sundborn-church
Old Sundborn Church
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Self-portrait https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/self-portrait-1891
Self-portrait
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The Studio. From A Home (26 watercolours) http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24212&viewType=detailView
Carl and Karin Larsson combined new design with old traditions. Practicality dictated their interior design, but it was equally important that furniture and objects form an attractive harmony. This ideal was also propagated by others, including Ellen Key, who advocated homes that were in a new and light style, in her essay “Skönhet för alla” (Beauty for All) in 1899. The Larssons moved to Lilla Hyttnäs, a house in Sundborn, in the summer of 1889. Here, Carl and Karin together created the interiors that made their home famous. Karin designed the furniture and textiles, which she embroidered and wove. A studio was fitted up in one of the hallways. It features many eye-catching details, including the funny man crowning a column. When a larger studio extension was added, this room became a workshop for the whole family. The interiors of the Larsson home were characterised by rural simplicity. Nevertheless, every detail was carefully designed, with influences from England, Scotland and Japan. The kitchen, which was first and foremost a place for household chores, did not display the same modern interior style and comfort as the rest of the house.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Kersti i svart http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=RAMSAY+613
taiteilijan pojan Ulfin (1887-1905) hautajaiset ; Kersti, taiteilijan nuorin tytär, s. 1896
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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A Studio Idyll. The Artist's Wife and their Daughter http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24132&viewType=detailView
Karin Larsson has her daughter Suzanne in her lap. They are sitting in Carl’s studio. Apart from his major commissions, practically all his works depict subjects that are close to him. Close, as in his family or his home, his friends or their children. Karin Larsson was also an artist, but her husband’s pictures rarely depict her in that capacity. Their home in Sundborn was largely her creation, but in the paintings of that place she is almost exclusively portrayed as a mother and a wife.
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Brita and me https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/brita-and-me-1895
Brita and me
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Required Reading https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/required-reading-1900
Required Reading
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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The Entry of King Gustav Vasa of Sweden into Stockholm, 1523 https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/the-entry-of-king-gustav-vasa-of-sweden-into-stockholm-1523-1908
The Entry of King Gustav Vasa of Sweden into Stockholm, 1523
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Carl Skånberg, the Artist http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=18775&viewType=detailView
Carl Larsson’s portrait of the plein-air painter Carl Skånberg was made in 1878, during a period of intense contact among the Swedes in Paris. There were two major opportunities where they could present their work: the big World’s Fair and the usual Salon. This portrait was accepted by the Salon and was praised by Larsson’s artist colleagues – unlike many of his other works from this period, which were considered too academic and thus outmoded.
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Getting Ready for a Game http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=18965&viewType=detailView
"It's really terrible outdoors. The wind is whistling through the joints of the house and the snow is not snow but sharp needles that get into the corners of one's eyes… Just the right time for a game of "vira". Here is the tray full of comforting drinks and all the necessaries and Karin is still not finished with the final decorations which include the monastery liqueur which she is taking off the shelf. In the background is the altar itself, the card table that I have arranged myself." Carl Larsson's own description of his painting Getting Reduy for a Game in the book entitled Larssons which was published by Bonniers in 1902. The "vira" that Carl Larsson mentioned was an enormously popular card game invented in Sweden sometime in the 19th century. When the picture was painted the Larsson family had settled permanently at their summer residence at Sundborn in the hills of Dalarna. In his autobiography Carl Larsson writes that it was his wife, Karin, who gave him the idea of portraying their home in pictures. Books about the Larsson home in Sundborn sold in huge editions and the pictures spread in innumerable reproductions. Few homes throughout the world have received as much publicity. For many people, Sundborn is the quintessence of all things Swedish though, in point of fact, the Larssons had a very international taste in furnishing. The first of the Sundborn watercolours were shown at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897. Ellen Key, the pioneering author and feminist, saw them at the exhibition and wrote an article on Beauty in the home that was published in the magazine Idun. Ellen Key wanted to create opinion against the "Germanic" style of furnishing which was usual at the time in Sweden. This consisted of dark wallpapers, heavy drapes and curtains, velvet-covered sofas and chairs and dried flowers. In Carl Larsson's watercolours she found something that could replace this. Both Ellen Key and the Karin and Carl Larsson had been inspired by John Ruskin's ideas about a more beautiful world beyond that of the mass-produced items of the factories. In Ruskin's view, beauty must collaborate with function and the task of art and architecture was a moral one in that they created the necessary conditions for spiritual health, energy and joy. Ruskin's theory about the importance of beauty in everyday life was taken up by William Morris in the field of crafts. Morris started the Arts and Crafts Movement that sought to bring new life to the traditional crafts s an alternative to industrial products. The ideas of the movement were spread by a highly influential magazine called The Studio which the Larssons subscribed to. The famous home at Sundborn was created jointly by Karin and Carl Larsson. Carl took an active part in the public life of the art world while Karin's contribution remained unrecognized right up to the 1980s. In fact Karin Larsson had received a thorough artistic training. She attended both what is now the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm – better known as Konstfack and the Academy of Fine Arts. She met Carl in Paris while he was studying there. After their marriage she gave birth to seven children in rapid succession. And so family life and managing the household took up her time and her professional life retired into the background. Karin never ceased to be creative but channelled this energy into furnishing Sundborn, for example. The home at Sundborn became her life work. For the house constantly changed in character to suit the shifting needs of the family.
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The Veranda. From A Home (26 watercolours) http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24203&viewType=detailView
Carl and Karin Larsson combined new design with old traditions. Practicality dictated their interior design, but it was equally important that furniture and objects form an attractive harmony. This ideal was also propagated by others, including Ellen Key, who advocated homes that were in a new and light style, in her essay “Skönhet för alla” (Beauty for All) in 1899. The Larssons moved to Lilla Hyttnäs, a house in Sundborn, in the summer of 1889. Here, Carl and Karin together created the interiors that made their home famous. Karin designed the furniture and textiles, which she embroidered and wove. A studio was fitted up in one of the hallways. It features many eye-catching details, including the funny man crowning a column. When a larger studio extension was added, this room became a workshop for the whole family. The interiors of the Larsson home were characterised by rural simplicity. Nevertheless, every detail was carefully designed, with influences from England, Scotland and Japan. The kitchen, which was first and foremost a place for household chores, did not display the same modern interior style and comfort as the rest of the house.
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Eva Upmark, 1852-1944, född Kindstrand http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=25310&viewType=detailView
  
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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The Yard and Washhouse. From A Home (26 watercolours) http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24217&viewType=detailView
  
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The Verandah https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/the-verandah
The Verandah
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Old Sundborn Church. From A Home (26 watercolours) http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24222&viewType=detailView
  
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Between Christmas and New Aсo https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/between-christmas-and-new-a-o-1896
Between Christmas and New Aсo
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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When the Children have Gone to Bed https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/when-the-children-have-gone-to-bed
When the Children have Gone to Bed
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The Author Selma Lagerlöf http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24245&viewType=detailView
This portrait of Selma Lagerlöf was commissioned by Frithiof Hellberg, editor of Idun. When Lagerlöf, as the first woman, took her seat in the Swedish Academy in 1914, this portrait was printed on its cover. It is one of many friend and author portraits executed in the same style – with black chalk contours and light colouring with a sparing use of oil paint. Selma Lagerlöf and Carl Larsson liked each other – and she supported him following August Strindberg’s attack on him in A New Blue Book in 1908.
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Lisbeth Angling. From A Home (26 watercolours) http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24223&viewType=detailView
  
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Getting Ready for a Game https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/getting-ready-for-a-game-1901
Getting Ready for a Game
November 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM