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NILS KREUGER (1858-1930): Landskap från Varberg med betande kor, signerad med monogram och daterad NK 1894, blyerts, svart och vit krita på papper, 28x43 cm


English text:
Landscape from Varberg with grazing cows, signed and dated with monogram "NK 1894", black chalk heightened with white on paper, 28x43 cm.

Exhibited:
(Probably) Stockholm, Konstnärsförbundets (The artists Association) 8th exhibition, May-June 1894

Nils Kreuger (Kalmar 1858-1930 Stockholm) returned to Sweden from France in 1887 and settled in Varberg, a coastal town situated 70 km south of Gothenburg, in the province of Halland. Between 1893-1895 he was joined there by Richard Bergh and Karl Nordström and together they formed 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.

In 1894 the group presented their works at Konstnärsförbundets 8th exhibition held in Stockholm. 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 which 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 frail but refined style, excellent ink drawings).

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Auktionsnummer:

865499

Datum:

2021-02-28