Otto Hesselbom, oljemålning
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OTTO HESSELBOM (Slobol, Sweden 1846-1913 Säffle, Sweden), Sunset in the Forest, signerad O. HESSELBOM, påskrift på baksidan: Solnedgång [Sunset], olja på duk fäst på pannå, 24x37 cm.
Utförd omkring 1904
UTSTÄLLD
London, Anna Grundberg Art Consultant at Gallery 8, Independent Finland. Gallen-Kallela and his Nordic contemporaries, 27 November-2 December 2017, No. 25
Otto Hesselbom was fascinated by perspectival effects, man-made or natural. In the present work he has used the lines of trees and the effect of light diminishing into dusk to create a sense of depth. The circular forms emanating from the setting sun - an unusual observation - are most likely naturalistic as opposed to symbolic. Similar optical effects do occur by staring into the sun and can also be caused by the sun reflecting through mist or dew.
By 1900 Otto Hesselbom was acclaimed internationally as an artist. In 1896 he had participated in an International exhibition in Berlin and in 1900 in two major exhibitions in Berlin and Paris, where he was awarded a bronze medal. He exhibited in Venice 1901 where he sold Extensive View of Dalsland to the Italian state, a fact that was noted by the art critic Vittorio Pica. The same year he exhibited in Munich. He was also officially invited to exhibit in Vienna the following year, together with Monet, Sisley and Pissarro, as part of a group of artists referred to as ´Modern French Artists´. In 1904 he participated in exhibitions in St. Louis, USA and Stettin in Poland.
In 1906 Hesselbom was elected as a member to the Union International des Beaux-arts et des Lettres and, in the same year, the influential magazine The Studio reproduced two of his paintings together with an article on the artist. Hesselbom was also represented in the ground-breaking exhibition Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America organised by the American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) in 1912, a survey of contemporary Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish painting. The exhibition travelled to Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, and Toledo following its opening in New York - an exhibition at which the painting, Putting out to Sea by Anna Boberg, included in this exhibition, was also shown. This exhibition brought together works by Nordic artists who embraced, and pioneered, the transformative aesthetic innovations that swept the European continent during late 19th and early 20th centuries. A retrospective of this exhibition was held in New York in 2012 at The American-Scandinavian Foundation (Luminous Modernism. Scandinavian Art Comes to America. A Centennial Retrospective 1912-2012, October 2011 - February 2012). On that occasion the exhibition was expanded to encompass all five Nordic countries, including Finland and Iceland, thereby illustrating the full range of artistic expression throughout the region during this period.
Hesselbom was acknowledged as a considerable painter in Sweden only after he had become well known in Europe. In Sweden he is revered for his masterpiece Our Land (first version 1902) - an extensive view of Lake Ånimmen at sunset in his native County of Dalsland and acquired by the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm in 1912. That work is seen as the epitome of Swedish landscape and has come to be adopted as a symbol of Swedish patriotic feeling about the landscape of the north.
pierre.olbers@auktionsverket.se
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Auktionsnummer:
529298
Datum:
2018-06-18