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Carl Larsson
Carl Olof Larsson was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He is principally known for his watercolors of idyllic family life. He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot, a large painting now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.
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culture · Swedish painter (1853–1919) · watercolorist · illustrator · painter · printmaker · graphic artist · draftsperson · writer · architectural drafter · exlibrist · muralist · also Carl Larsson, Carl Olof Larsson, Karl Olof Larsson, carl Larsson, Larsson
Born 28 May 1853 · Died 22 January 1919 · Q187310
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1997· 1 entry
And permanently display it in the location for which it was intended
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1992· 1 entry
Agreed to lend it to the museum for its major Carl Larsson exhibition, where it was hung in the intended place
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1987· 1 entry
The museum was even offered the monumental painting for free, provided it would adorn the empty wall for which it had been intended, but the museum declined the offer, so the painting was sold to the Japanese collector H
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1919· 1 entry
Died 1919-01-22.
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1915· 1 entry
Had been commissioned for a wall in the National Museum in Stockholm (which already had several of his frescos adorning its walls)
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1909· 1 entry
By the German publisher Karl Robert Langewiesche (1874–1931)
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1901· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1901).
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1888· 1 entry
The young family was given a small house named Lilla Hyttnäs at Sundborn just outside Falun in Dalarna by Karin's father Adolf Bergöö (1828–1890)
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1886· 1 entry
Accepted the position of director at the Valand School of Fine Art in Gothenburg, a role he held until 1891
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1885· 1 entry
Returned to Sweden where he would stay until 1888, painting scenes of southern Stockholm in en plein air studies
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1882· 1 entry
Settled for a time with his Swedish painter colleagues in Grez-sur-Loing at a Scandinavian artists' colony outside Paris
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1877· 1 entry
Where he spent several frustrating years as a hardworking artist without any success
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1869· 1 entry
At the age of sixteen, he was promoted to the "antique school" of the same academy
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1853· 1 entry
Born 1853-05-28.
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