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NILS KREUGER
1858-1930
Grannhusen, Apelviken, Varberg
Signerad med monogram och daterad NK 1894. Tusch och rödkrita på papper fäst på pannå, 31,5 x47,5 cm
På baksidan numrerad 饬'

PROVENIENS
Musikförläggare pch bokhandlare Otto Joseph Hirsch (1858-1945)

UTSTÄLLD
(troligen) Konstnärsförbundets åttonde utställning, Stockholm 1894
Dessins Suédois autour de 1900, Galerie Benjamin Perronet, Paris 2019, katalognr 4



- The neighboring houses, Apelviken, Varberg
Signed and dated with monogram NK 1894. Black ink and red chalk on paper laid on board, 31,5 x 47,5 cm.
A tergo numbered "276"

PROVENANCE: The Music and Book publisher Otto Joseph Hirsch (1858-Stockholm-1945)

EXHIBITED: (Probably) Stockholm, Konstnärsförbundets (The artists Association) 8th exhibition, May-June 1894
Paris, Benjamin Perronet Fine Art, Dessins Suédois autour de 1900, 8-16 November 2019, No. 4

Nils Kreuger (Kalmar 1858-1930 Stockholm) returned to Sweden from France in 1887 where he settled in Varberg, a coastal town situated 70 km south of Gothenburg, in the province of Halland. Between 1893-1895 he was joined by his friends and collegues Richard Bergh and Karl Nordström. Together they founded what became known as Varbergsskolan (The School of Varberg) which greatly contributed to the creation of a pure national romantic style as a reaction to realistic landscape painting.

Kreuger frequently depicted alleys and gardens in Varberg and its surrounding villages, often at twilight. The present work depicts the so-called Granngårdarna (the neighboring houses) in Apelviken, a bay south of Varberg, where Kreuger and Nordström lived during the summers. The houses became nationally known through Nordström´s famous picture "Granngårdarna" (Nationalmuseum), which depict the houses from the opposite side towards the sea.

Kreuger begun to employ his characteristic pointillistic technique in 1894, the a result of his exposure to van Gogh´s art at Den Frie Udstilling in Copenhagen in 1893. At Konstnärsförbundets (The artists Association) 8th exhibition held in Stockholm during the spring 1894, Kreuger showed his famous pointillistic triptyk "Spring in Halland" (Nationalmuseum), Pauli his "Vision" (Nationalmuseum) and Nordström his groundbreaking picture "Varbergs fäste" (Sparbanken). Kreuger also participated with a group of drawings. These caught the attention of the art historian Karl Wåhlin. In a review of the exhibition in "Ord och Bild", 5th booklet 1894, he wrote: "Nils Kreuger, som utställer några mycket känsliga smärre landskap i den veka, förfinade stil, som är honom egen, förträffliga tuschteckningar." (Kreuger exhibits some very sensitive landscapes in his characteristic refined style, excellent ink drawings).

Auktionsnummer:

1450

Datum:

2020-12-09