Carl Wilhelmson
Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson (born November 12, 1866 in Fiskebäckskil near Gothenburg , † September 24, 1928 in Gothenburg) was a Swedish painter.
He was also a professor at the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm and also had his own art school.
Life
Carl was the son of a sailor. At the age of 14 he came to Gothenburg, where he studied at the drawing and painting school of the city museum, which was directed by Carl Larsson among others , and worked as a lithographer . In 1889 Carl Wilhelmson moved to Paris , where he stayed for seven years. There he earned money as a technical draftsman and continued his art studies. His motifs included studies of Brittany , biblical material and views of his homeland, which he visited in the meantime.
In the Paris Salon Carl exhibited I kyrkan in 1893 , Jesus före sin predikan in 1894 and Fiskarkvinnor bindande nät in 1895 , each of which earned him an honorable mention . In 1896 Wilhelmson moved back to Sweden, where he directed the technical and painting school in Gothenburg from 1897 to 1910. In 1912 Wilhelmson moved to Stockholm .
Wilhelmson's artistic work
Carl's paintings are mainly associated with his homeland, Bohuslän .
The Nordisk familjebok describes him as: “ Serious and powerful in conception and treatment, his types are honest and well studied with the greatest immediacy and sharpness in their characteristics. The scenario is carefully worked out, either he carefully depicts an interior or he lets the colorful huts of a fishing settlement in the sunshine form the colorful background, to dark, serious and silent figures. In several paintings he has achieved a rather decorative attitude, which replaced his earlier cloudy and less soulful coloring, so that his style gained importance, firmness and shine. "
For a long time Wilhelmson only painted Swedish motifs. Many small oil paintings and watercolors were created with views of the port of Gothenburg, the archipelago in western Sweden , as well as other landscapes and studies of people. During this period two frescoes were created in the Gothenburg city library and an elementary school, as well as a mural in the Stockholm post office (load work at Skeppsbron, 1907).
Studies of ethnic groups and cityscapes come from a trip to Spain that Carl undertook in 1910. In Scandinavia, Wilhelmson visited Lapland , the Uppsala area and the Lofoten in Norway, which was reflected in some pictures.
Works (selection)
- Väntan och Trött (Waiting and Tired, the Artist's Mother on a Chair, 1898)
- Juniafton (June evening, a peasant artist playing the violin with his audience, 1902)
- Flicka i blått (Girl in Blue, 1904)
- På berget (A group of fishermen quietly gazing at the sea from their vantage point on a mountain, 1907)
- Grufarbete (motif from Kiruna , 1907)
- Kyrkfolk i båt (Church People in Boat, Swedish National Museum, 1909)
- Sommar (Little Girls Playing on the Beach of a Fjord, 1911)
- Knut Kjellberg (portrait, professor in Uppsala, 1916)
- Vid brunnen (At the fountain, folk costumes from Carl's hometown Fiskebäckskil, 1917)
literature
- Carl Wilhelmson . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 32 : Werth – Väderkvarn . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1921, Sp. 490 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilhelmson, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilhelmson, Carl Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fiskebäckskil near Gothenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1928 |
| Place of death | Gothenburg |