GUSTAF LUNDBERG 1695-1786. En Porträttmålare och Hans Tid (A Portrait Painter and His Time)

Author: Laine, Merit, Carolina Brown
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish/ English summary
Year Published: 2006
No. of pages: 278
Illustrations: 36 Color Illustrations. 83 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Size: 11”x 9”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 917100727X
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index. Bio.
Code: 5968

Price: $175.00

Lundberg was a young portrait painter, who left Sweden during the difficult years at the end of Charles XII:s reign but returned in 1745 . He became an immediate and lasting success and evenutally became a Court painter. In this, the first monograph on Lundberg since 1902, the authors deal with Lundberg’s artistic development and studio practices as well as his career strategies, particularly in Paris where the competition among the pastel painters was very keen. His Swedish career and the portrait types he created are discussed in relation to the ideological, social and political tensions of the times, as well as the stylistic and thematic influences from French literary, philosophical and artistic developments. The circumstances of his life and contempoary evaluations of his work are also taken as a starting point of a discussion of the Swedish art scene and market, as well as the artist’s role in Swedish society during the 18th century.