"Pines and Snow"
Signed Oskar Bergman and dated 1914. Pencil on paper, image area 15 x 22 cm.
The Swedish Exhibition, 1916, cat. no 35. (Exhibition of contemporary Swedish art, 1916), under the auspices of the Brooklyn Museum, the Copley Society of Boston, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Carnegie Institute--Pittsburgh, the Detroit Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the City Art Museum--St. Louis, the John Herron Art Institute--Indianapolis, the Toledo Museum of Art.
Oskar Bergman was a Swedish visual artist born in Stockholm. Bergman was self-taught and took much inspiration from his study trips to Germany, Italy and France. Bergman worked as an etcher and painter, with his paintings, which emulate an overpowering Swedishness, is valued today not only in Sweden, but also international artists. With his razor-sharp and lifelike depictions of both city scapes and rural landscapes, Bergman managed to capture viewers and art audiences alike. As a self-taught artist, one is particularly impressed by his detailed and evocative painting style.
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