Nils von Dardel

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Nils von Dardel, self-portrait, 1935

Nils Elias Christoffer von Dardel (signed: Nils Dardel ; born October 25, 1888 in Bettna , Södermanland , Sweden ; † May 25, 1943 in New York City ) was a Swedish post-impressionist painter .

biography

“Greavning i Senlis” (burial in Senlis), 1913

Nils von Dardel was a grandson of the Swedish court official and painter Fritz von Dardel . After studying at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm , he belonged to a group of artists who moved to Paris around 1910, together with Sigrid Hjertén , Isaac Grünewald , Einar Jolin and Leander Engström . The reputation of Henri Matisse lured them, although this should have relatively little artistic influence on Dardel. Instead, he was influenced by the Post-Impressionists, the pure colors of the Fauvists, and Japanese woodblock prints. His penchant for post-impressionism, especially pointillism , was expressed through the use of strong, clear colors combined with naive narrative style. A typical example of his art is the picture Gravning in Senlis ( Burial in Senlis ) from 1913, which Dardel painted while he was in the small medieval town of Senlis (Oise) .

In 1913 he portrayed his gallery owner Alfred Flechtheim , who fell in love with him and with whom he had a brief and stormy affair. In the 1930s he and Edita Morris (1902–1988) had more than one friendship.

Dardel led a self-destructive, excessive and hectic life. Many of his later pictures are portraits of people he met while traveling. The retrospective of his work, organized by Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm at the time of the outbreak of World War II, gave him a breakthrough and made him popular in his home country.

Dardel died in New York in 1943.

Web links

Commons : Nils Dardel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  • Nils von Dardel by Sören Engblom, in Moderna museet - boken , ed. Cecilia Widenheim et al. , Stockholm: Moderna museet, 2004 ISBN 91-7100-724-5
  • Nils von Dardel , in Nordisk Familjebok , Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks förlags aktiebolag, 2nd ed. Apn. 1923.
personal data
SURNAME Dardel, Nils von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dardel, Nils Elias Christoffer von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish post-impressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Bettna , Södermanland , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1943
Place of death New York City