Carl Kylberg
"Uppställning med rosor och pipa" (Still life with roses)
Signed CK. Executed in 1918. Canvas 25 x 32 cm.
Provenance
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Februarigruppen 1919".
The collection of Thorsten Laurin, Stockholm (acquired at the exhibition above).
Subsequently by descent to the present owner.
Exhibitions
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Februarigruppen 1919", 15 February - 23 March 1919, cat no. 325.
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, "Stilleben i svensk konst", 1933, cat no. 96.
Konstakademien, Stockholm, "Retrospektiv utställning", 1937, cat no. 47.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Den unga expressionismen. Svenskt måleri 1909-20", 1944, cat no. 289.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Carl Kylberg. Minnesutställning", 13 March - 4 April 1954, cat no 28.
Literature
Ragnar Hoppe, "Katalog över Thorsten Laurins samling av måleri och skulptur", 1936, in the catalogue no 116, p. 56, full p. picture no 67.
"Konst i svenska hem", vol. II, no. 4, in the catalogue p. 170, collection no 233: "Direktör Thorsten Laurin, Ekarne, Djurgården, Stockholm".
Designer
Carl Kylberg, 1878-1952, is considered a seminal figure in the Swedish 1900-century art. He was a student at the architecture department at Berlin University and then a student of Carl Wilhelmson at Valand art school in Gothenburg.
Kylberg broke through late, made his debut as a painter in 1919 with the February group at Liljevalchs. He became known to a wider public by the age of 50, but continued to be controversial as an artist. He had a permanent artistic antagonist of Isaac Grünewald and the same year as the Nazis in Germany set up the decisive blow against Entartete Kunst and practically the whole of modernism, Swedish government stopped the purchase of the painting "Uppbrottet" of the National Museum in Stockholm.
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