Carl Larsson

Karin and Kersti

Karin and Kersti https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/karin-and-kersti-1898

The Apple Harvest

The Apple Harvest https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/the-apple-harvest-1903

This ideal was also propagated by others, including Ellen Key, who advocated homes that were in a new and light style, in her essay “Skönhet för alla” (Beauty for All) in 1899. The Larssons moved to Lilla Hyttnäs, a house in Sundborn, in the summer of 1889. Here, Carl and Karin together created the interiors that made their home famous. Karin designed the furniture and textiles, which she embroidered and wove. A studio was fitted up in one of the hallways. It features many eye-catching details, including the funny man crowning a column. When a larger studio extension was added, this room became a workshop for the whole family. The interiors of the Larsson home were characterised by rural simplicity. Nevertheless, every detail was carefully designed, with influences from England, Scotland and Japan. The kitchen, which was first and foremost a place for household chores, did not display the same modern interior style and comfort as the rest of the house.

Brita's Forty Winks. From A Home (26 watercolours) http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24216&viewType=detailView

Fishing

Fishing https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/fishing-1905

My friends, the Carpenter and the Painter

My friends, the Carpenter and the Painter https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/my-friends-the-carpenter-and-the-painter-1909

Carl and Karin Larsson combined new design with old traditions. Practicality dictated their interior design, but it was equally important that furniture and objects form an attractive harmony. This ideal was also propagated by others, including Ellen Key, who advocated homes that were in a new and light style, in her essay “Skönhet för alla” (Beauty for All) in 1899. The Larssons moved to Lilla Hyttnäs, a house in Sundborn, in the summer of 1889. Here, Carl and Karin together created the interiors that made their home famous. Karin designed the furniture and textiles, which she embroidered and wove. A studio was fitted up in one of the hallways. It features many eye-catching details, including the funny man crowning a column. When a larger studio extension was added, this room became a workshop for the whole family. The interiors of the Larsson home were characterised by rural simplicity. Nevertheless, every detail was carefully designed, with influences from England, Scotland and Japan. The kitchen, which was first and foremost a place for household chores, did not display the same modern interior style and comfort as the rest of the house

The Studio. From A Home (26 watercolours) http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24213&viewType=detailView

Mammas and the small girls

Mammas and the small girls https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/mammas-and-the-small-girls-1897

Daddy's Room

Daddy's Room https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/daddy-s-room

Between Christmas and New Aсo

Between Christmas and New Aсo https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/between-christmas-and-new-a-o-1896

Required Reading

Required Reading https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/required-reading-1900

The Kitchen

The Kitchen https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/the-kitchen

Self-portrait

Self-portrait https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/self-portrait-1912

Detail Of Christmas Eve

Detail Of Christmas Eve https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/detail-of-christmas-eve-1906

Karin Larsson has her daughter Suzanne in her lap. They are sitting in Carl’s studio. Apart from his major commissions, practically all his works depict subjects that are close to him. Close, as in his family or his home, his friends or their children. Karin Larsson was also an artist, but her husband’s pictures rarely depict her in that capacity. Their home in Sundborn was largely her creation, but in the paintings of that place she is almost exclusively portrayed as a mother and a wife.

A Studio Idyll. The Artist's Wife and their Daughter http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24132&viewType=detailView

Suzanne

Suzanne https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/suzanne-1894

The Studio

The Studio https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/the-studio-1895

Playing Scales

Playing Scales https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/playing-scales

The Crayfish Season Opens

The Crayfish Season Opens https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/the-crayfish-season-opens-1897

Cowgirl in the meadow

Cowgirl in the meadow https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/cowgirl-in-the-meadow-1906

A Late-Riser's Miserable Breakfast

A Late-Riser's Miserable Breakfast https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/a-late-riser-s-miserable-breakfast-1900

Carl and Karin Larsson combined new design with old traditions. Practicality dictated their interior design, but it was equally important that furniture and objects form an attractive harmony. This ideal was also propagated by others, including Ellen Key, who advocated homes that were in a new and light style, in her essay “Skönhet för alla” (Beauty for All) in 1899. The Larssons moved to Lilla Hyttnäs, a house in Sundborn, in the summer of 1889. Here, Carl and Karin together created the interiors that made their home famous. Karin designed the furniture and textiles, which she embroidered and wove. A studio was fitted up in one of the hallways. It features many eye-catching details, including the funny man crowning a column. When a larger studio extension was added, this room became a workshop for the whole family. The interiors of the Larsson home were characterised by rural simplicity. Nevertheless, every detail was carefully designed, with influences from England, Scotland and Japan. The kitchen, which was first and foremost a place for household chores, did not display the same modern interior style and comfort as the rest of the house.

Mamma's and the Small Girls' Room. From A Home (26 watercolours) http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24215&viewType=detailView

Crayfishing. From A Home (26 watercolours) http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24219&viewType=detailView

Lisbeth, taiteilijan vanhin tytär, s. 1891

Lisbeth spelar teater http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=RAMSAY+608

The Vine can be interpreted as a light-hearted allegory of love – the woman harvests the grapes for the wine that intoxicates the man. With his great technical virtuosity, Carl Larsson was excellently equipped to succeed in the Neo-Rococo genre, which relied to a great extent on the ability to paint with illusory brilliance. The Vine was bought by Herman Friedländer when it was shown at the Opponent Exhibition Vid Seinens strand (On the Seine River Bank) in Stockholm in 1885. Friedländer later lent it to the World’s Fair in Paris in 1889.

The Vine http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24342&viewType=detailView

My Late Wife http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=19438&viewType=detailView

The figure in 18th century dress pandered to the taste for 18th century scenes that had become fashionable in French salon painting and is also found in other works by Carl Larsson from his Grez period, including The Vine and A Bite. The effect is slightly bizarre when combined with a landscape so distinctly in the plein-air realistic style. Nevertheless, Autumn is one of Carl Larsson’s finest watercolours, with its grey, misty landscape fading into thin, transparent hues behind the figure.

Autumn http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24343&viewType=detailView

When the Children have Gone to Bed

When the Children have Gone to Bed https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/when-the-children-have-gone-to-bed

Lisbeth fishing

Lisbeth fishing https://www.wikiart.org/en/carl-larsson/lisbeth-fishing-1898

Sittande naken kvinna http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+953

Thorsten Laurin was a book publisher at the family business Norstedts and was also one of the great art collectors in his day – two sides that are suggested by the book spines and works of art in the background. He was also one of Larsson’s closest friends and gave him advice, assignments and contacts. For his new villa on Djurgården he bought Larsson’s monumental painting My Family. He and his brother, Carl G. Laurin, were key figures on the contemporary art scene and were founder members of the Friends of the Nationalmuseum.

Portait of Thorsten Laurin http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=138256&viewType=detailView