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The Art ofCarl Larsson

Carl Larsson

( Born 28 May 1853 ~ Died 22 January 1919)


16 November 2001 (rev. 11-17-01)

Dear Friends and Allies:

One of the most delightful watercolor paintings I am familiar with is "The Name Day" (aka ...at the Storage Shed) by Swedish artist Carl Larsson. It was painted circa 1894-97, and shows a parade of flower and costume bedecked Swedish children bringing breakfast to a young woman still in bed. With one smiling exception, the children are solemn with high purpose. Their beauty and intent make the joy of this watercolor contagious. (The small images available on the Web may not show enough detail to convey the mood of the painting.)

Carl Larsson created so many beautiful paintings. They are a clarifying contrast to the crude, dull, poisonous works hyped as art in so many galleries and museums. Carl Larsson's family scenes, beautiful interiors and natural settings are calming to the mind and refreshing to the spirit. His wife, Karin, was also an artist. She apparently stopped painting with the birth of their first child (http://www.mittnerike.nu/karin/e_karin.html) and was very busy with 8 children born in 6 years (http://ns0.vam.ac.uk/larsson/biographies/). The beautiful interiors of their home were mostly created by Karin and were made famous by Carl's paintings.

The scenes of home life painted by Carl Larsson include healthy children playing, the dog sleeping in the living room, a woman holding a toddler, family celebrations and so many beautiful moments of daily life. I have the 1996 calendar published by te Neues of Germany and New York. From the calendar:

Larsson wanted to share the beautiful things in life and to appreciate "how pretty a flower is by the wayside, how lovely the hair plait of a little girl is lying around her tiny neck, what a gorgeous picture a nude woman can be, how grand a man and a horse can be presented...But it has to be well done!"

Home life was not the only subject of Carl's paintings. "Midwinter Sacrifice" is an extraordinary image of King Domalde in front of the temple in Uppsala preparing to give his life for the benefit of his people. (Please note I freed the painting from the site's frame system with the previous link.) The details of the painting and how it was refused by the National Museum of Sweden are interesting and puzzling.

Larsson's work also had a mischievous side, as exemplified by the large version of the self-portrait above. If you click here or on the image of Carl at the top of this page, you will see serious Carl holding a waving doll.

Apparently, in his autobiography, Larsson revealed that he suffered from doubts and depression during his life. Since then, information about the toxic effects of some paints and solvents used in art has become more well known than I believe it was in the last century. I wonder if Larsson was accidentally poisoned by the materials he used and if he suffered the mental effects of physical poisoning. Nonetheless, he made so many beautiful images I believe happiness was also a part of his life.

In Carl's words, from the 1996 calendar published by te Neues of Germany and New York:

"I am a Swede and--shudder--a Socialist. I want to be useful and I want to give joy--but not only to one person, but to everybody."

Some people recoil at the word Socialist. Aren't labels such as "Socialist" slippery? What if they are understood within the context of era and country and DNA? Since I am of Scandinavian/Northern tribes DNA, I believe Carl Larsson was expressing the natural tendencies of altruism that have made Scandinavians so often generous and naive and so often vulnerable to those who take advantage and do not reciprocate.

In addition, Carl's life story may have been distorted in the telling by anti-German propaganda. _Das Haus in Der Sonne_ by Carl Larsson was translated into German and given to German soldiers. The book has beautiful images of family life and apparently was meant to fortify the spirits of the soldiers.

Since Carl's work was given to German soldiers, it is no surprise that the BBC producers chose to describe Carl Larsson as follows in their production "Trouble In Paradise":

The troubles of his early life left Carl resenting the happiness of his new family home. He was also deeply frustrated by Karin's role in his success. This left him a contradiction he was never to resolve -he had painted light, airy and fun-filled pictures of a family home that had transformed the lives of huge numbers of people, yet could only bear to be with them for a few days at a time.

When his good friend August Strindberg condemned him in public as "a man made of lies", he went to pieces in a way that starkly contradicted his public persona. However, this was nothing compared to the shock felt by the Swedish people when his autobiography was published after his and Karin's deaths, and it was revealed that his entire life had been a facade, and that he was actually a very bitter and depressive man. The appropriation of his work by Nazis as propaganda only added to the injury of his reputation as one of the icons of Swedish life. http://www.bbc.co.uk/works/s4/larsson/index.shtml

If you link to the above "programme notes", you will see the multiculti background images.

In my experience, watercolor painting requires great concentration. Children require great concentration. Why is an artist requiring time to work away from the children a sinister event to the BBC? Providing for and raising many children while creating a beautiful home environment may have been very challenging, and frazzled nerves may have resulted. If Carl truly resented his wife--how sad. To date, I have not read Karin's version of their life.

It is possible to be angry when you feel betrayed by someone you thought was a friend. Perhaps Strindberg's public criticism rightfully made Carl Larsson angry. In the PC world of the BBC, anger must be forbidden to Whites. (How many self-loathing Whites work for the BBC?--I assume the healthy Whites have been replaced by affirmative action.)

Carl Larsson is dead. Therefore, I judge him by his works and how they are relevant to me. They show beautiful moments of family life. Many of them give me joy. I hope they give you joy, as well.

After the map below are links to sites with more information and images of Carl Larsson paintings.

Bless Our Beautiful, Creative Race.

Sincerely,

Elena Haskins


Click on the map below for an enlargement with an arrow pointing to the approximate location of Sundborn:

Link to larger map, approximate location of Sundborn


Links:

The Carl Larsson Official Homepage by The Carl and Karin Larsson Family Association
http://www.clg.se/
This site has biographical information, some works, links, etc.

Photos of the Larsson home at Sundborn:
http://www.chestud.chalmers.se/~k94064/carl.html

Stabo Scandinavian Imports
Carl Larsson prints
http://www.stabo-imports.com/sweden_larsson.htm

Send an internet postcard with a Carl Larsson painting:
http://www.barnbokhandeln.com/vykort/vykort.html

Project Runeberg--Art by Carl Larsson
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/clarsson/
If you enjoy skillful portraiture of Scandinavians, the jpeg files at this site may be of interest. Many paintings with titles are available here.

Sunet's ftp site:
http://ftp.sunet.se/ftp/pub/pictures/art/Carl.Larsson/
This appears to be a mirror of the Project Runeberg page. Unfortunately, the titles are missing at this ftp site.

Wahlverwandtschaft: Elective Affinity, Scandinavia and Germany 1800 to 1914: Karin and Carl Larsson
http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/wahlverwandtschaft/larssoneng.htm

The above is a page of http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/wahlverwandtschaft/
Walverwandtschaft is:

"Elective affinity – this term for chemical processes was coined by the Swede Torbern Bergman. The term was taken up in 1809 by Goethe in his novel _The Elective Affinities_ and has since been associated with human and cultural sympathies and aversions. These are the subject matter of the exhibition: the 19th century encounters between Denmark, Norway and Sweden on the one hand and Germany on the other."

The rest of the site is also interesting. However, this is a German museum site, and 56 years after the end of WWII, the grandchildren of German "Gentiles" who survived Yet Another Fratricidal War to Enrich The International Moneychangers are still required to pay billions while kissing the buttocks of jews and being prosecuted and jailed for disagreeing with the official dogma according to the jews and their useful idiots. Therefore, yet another Holohoax exhibit apparently must be included in order to offset any other mention of German history: http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/holocaust/

The Victoria & Albert Museum, London: Biographical information about Carl and Karin Larsson:
http://ns0.vam.ac.uk/larsson/biographies/
Please note: the reference to Larsson loathing Germanic interior styles of the time has no citation listed, and I suspect a gratuitous insult from a British museum.

A search for Carl Larsson at the following vendors yields product images and some enlargements:

http://museum-shops.com/artist/larsson.htm

http://www.barewalls.com/

http://www.artexpression.com/byartist/larscarl.htm

Art Cyclopedia: Carl Larsson on the Internet
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/larsson_carl.html

Athens Antique Prints: Carl Larsson Book Plate Illustrations
http://www.sover.net/~oldlabel/larsson.html

American Swedish Institute: Carl Larsson prints
http://www.americanswedishinst.org/larsson.htm

Art.com Carl Larsson posters
http://www.art.com/asp/display_artist.asp?CrID=2481

The Emigrant's Daughter
http://www.rinquist.com/books.html
List of Carl Larsson and Scandinavian arts and crafts books with links to Amazon.com

Project Runeberg--Nordic Author Carl Larsson: On-line literature and links
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/authors/clarsson.html

Wooden Spoon - Scandinavian Foods and Gifts
http://net5000.com/nordic/

Carl Larsson and other Scandinavian calendars
http://www.net5000.com/nordic/calendars/calendars1.htm

Sonika's Too: Your Source for Scandinavian Gifts on the Web
http://www,sonikas.com

Carl Larsson page:
http://www.sonikas.com/carllarsson.html

With the exception of Carl Larson paintings,
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