LILJEFORS, BRUNO.
Author: Ellenius, Allan
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Year Published: 2006
No. of pages: 112
Illustrations: 53 Color Illustrations. 6 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8 1/2” x 8”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9127114430
Biblio/Bio: Bio. Bibl. Index. Cat. of exh.
Code: 5886
Price: $75.00
Liljefors (1860-1939) was a Swedish artist, the most important and probably the most influential wildlife painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. All his life he was a hunter, and he often painted predator-prey action, for example fox-hare, sea eagle-eider, goshak-black goose. However, he never exaggerated the ferocity of the predator or the pathos of the prey, depicting with sensitivity and accuracy the birds and animals of his native Sweden in their natural habitats. His paintings feature in the background the flora, the marshes, the lakes, the sea, and the woodlands of Sweden, although the focus is always on the animals. This book shows the greatness of Liljefors and his ability to show animals in their environment.
LUMINOUS MODERNISM. Scandinavian Art Comes to America A Centennial Retrospective 1912- 2012
Author: Berman, Patricia G.
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2011
No. of pages: 160
Illustrations: 61 Color Illustrations. 7 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Size: 12”x 9 1/2”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9780971949379
Biblio/Bio: Bios.
Code: 6652
Price: $95.00
Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America, 1912, an international loan exhibition of paintings by Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Anders Zorn, and other Scandinavian pioneers of modernism, opened October 25, 2011, at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. The exhibition brings together 48 works by Nordic artists who embraced, and pioneered, the transformative aesthetic innovations that swept the European continent during late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.
LUNDBYE, JOHAN THOMAS. The Gallant Volunteer
Author: Laugesen, Peter
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 1993
No. of pages: 87
Illustrations: 29 Color Illustrations. 4 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound w/ jacket
Size: 8”x 5 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 8888978214
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 4679
Price: $55.00
Lundbye’s paintings seem to exude raw emotion. He loved the sensual immediacy of animals but, in turn, Lundbye (1818-1848) feared the animal in man. In his paintings of landscapes and farm scenes, for example, people are ominously absent. In fact, his fascinating paintings seem to possess a national demonic power in their stark naturalism. A great introduction to Lundbye’s lifework, unfortunately cut short by his early death.
LUNDGREN, EGRON: EN MÅLARES ANTECKNINGAR (A Painter’s Writings).
Author: Montgomery, Küllike and Ragnar Holten
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish/ English
Year Published: 1995
No. of pages: 94
Illustrations: 28 Color Illustrations. 43 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8 1/2”sq
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 917100520X
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh.
Code: 3893
Price: $39.50
Because of the significant time he spent in France, Italy, Spain, England, India, Egypt, and Norway, the worldliness of this Swedish artist sets him apart from all others. Trained in the tradition of the English landscape painters, Lundgren (1815-75) was known predominantly for his watercolors set in exotic locales. Various essays focus on his experiences in each of these countries, especially his time as a reporter on the war in India and as an illustrator for Queen Victoria of England. Also included is a complete numbered catalog of his works displayed in the exhibition. This book is in Swedish except the essay by Delia Millar: Watercolours Painted by Egron Lundgren for Queen Victoria’s Theatrical Album.
LUNDGREN, EGRON: THE PAINTER’S EYE. Egron Lundgren and India
Author: Nilsson, Sten and Narayani Gupta
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Year Published: 1992
No. of pages: 157
Illustrations: 23 Color Illustrations. 51 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 10 1/2”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9171004416
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 3784
Price: $49.50
Intended to give a fair impression of artistic endeavour of high quality and to bring to light historical material of great importance, this book presents the life and work of traveling artist and writer Egron Lundgren (1815-75). Well-known in Sweden for his watercolors depicting his exploits in India, this artist has remained relatively unknown internationally. Drawing from historical documentation, a wide selection of Lundgren’s watercolors, and his diary entries, this book delves into the exotic world of India that he experienced and captured for his Swedish audience as he was sent out to report on the uprising in 1857-8.