Karl Nordström

Karl Nordström (1893)

Karl Fredrik Nordström (born July 11, 1855 at Gut Hoga on Tjörn , † August 16, 1923 in Drottningholm ) was a Swedish painter.

Life

Sunset over the West Sea , 1899

Nordström was the son of Anders Nordström and his wife Britt-Louise (née Hellberg). From 1875 he was mainly supervised by Edvard Perséus as a student at the drawing school at the Swedish Art Academy . From 1880 to 1882 he stayed for studies in various places in France , where he was strongly influenced by Impressionism . Among other things, he lived with other Swedish artists in the artists' colony Grez-sur-Loing . Nordström had his first notable successes in 1886 at the Paris Salon with his paintings Waldstück bei Grez and an open-air portrait of Mrs. N. as a fiancée . In the same year, Nordström married the artist Tekla Lindeström and his daughter Elsa also later became a painter. After that, Nordström lived mainly on Tjörn and in the Stockholm district of Djurgården, whereupon his style tended more towards Scandinavian. Nordström was one of the founders of the Swedish Artists Association and was its spokesman from 1896 to 1920.

Together with Nils Kreuger and Richard Bergh , he formed the so-called Varberg School, which was based on the works of Paul Gauguin . Nordström was close friends with August Strindberg and Carl Larsson , whom he had met in France. His pictures are exhibited in the Swedish National Museum , on Waldemarsudde , in the Thielska Gallery and in the Gothenburg Art Museum.

Other works (selection)

• Marskväll på Skansen
• Nattstämning på Stockholms ström
• Utsikt över Fåfängan
• Påskeld
• Ovädersmoln
• Varbergs feast
• Skymning motif from Varberg
• Natt
• Granngårdarna i Appelvik
• Solglitter på havet
• Borreberg på Tjörn
• En vårafton från Roslagstull
• Månuppgång i Bellevue park
• Vinterafton vid Roslagstull
• Hoga på Tjörn

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  Min fru / My Wife (1885)

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  Vinterbild by Skansen (1891)

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  Granngårdarna (1894) National Museum, Stockholm

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  Regnbågen / The Rainbow (1899)

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  Röda sails / Red sails

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  Skäret / The Skerry (1909)

literature

• Albin Hildebrand: Karl Fredrik Nordström . In: Svenskt portrait gallery . tape 20 : Arkitekter, bildhuggare, målare, tecknare, graphic artist, monster ritare och constindustrialister. Hasse W. Tullberg, Stockholm 1901 ( runeberg.org ).
• JE Kruse, Georg Nordensvan : Nordström, Karl Fredrik . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 19 : Mykenai-Norrpada . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 1360-1361 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Nordström, Karl Fredrik . In: Erik Thyselius (Ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1918 . 4th year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1917, ISSN  0347-3341 , p. 286 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
• Axel Holck : Nordström ['no.rdström], Karl Fredrik . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 18 : Nordlandsbaad – Perleøerne . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1924, p. 30–31 (Danish, runeberg.org - different information on the place of birth: Stenkyrka [Bohuslän]).
• Nordström, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 517 .

Web links

Commons : Karl Nordström  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Karl F Nordström riksarkivet.se (Swedish)