Swedish Realist Painter, 1853-1919
Swedish painter, illustrator and printmaker. He came from a poor family and studied (1866-76) at the Konstakademi in Stockholm, supporting himself throughout this period. From 1871 to 1878 he contributed illustrations to the comic journal Kaspar and the Ny illustrerad tidning. From 1875, for several decades, he was a prolific book illustrator, his most renowned work in this field being his drawings for Föltskärns beröttelser ('The Barber-surgeon's tales'; pubd 1883-4) by Zacharius Topelius, and the Rococo-inspired watercolours for the Samlade skaldeförsök ('Collected attempts at poetry'; pubd 1884) by the 18th-century Swedish author Anna Maria Lenngren. Related Paintings of Carl Larsson :. | titelbild till nodhjalpstidningen fran seinens strandl | skiss till vaggmalning troligen ostra vaggen, avsedd for uppenbarelsekyrkan i saltsjobaden | pa vikingatag i dalom | lisbeth som den onde prinsessen | Brita-s Nap | Related Artists: Rinaldo Cuneo 1877-1939 Jean Malouel Niemegan before 1370-Dijon 1415 jenny nystrom född i Kalmar 13 juni 1854, död 17 januari 1946