"Item #AT-0513-August Vilhelm Nikolaus Hagborg (1852 - 1921)â€œFiskare PÃ¥ Stranden I Bretagne" Oil on Canvas

Item #AT-00513
August Vilhelm Nikolaus Hagborg (1852 - 1921)“Fiskare På Stranden I Bretagne" Oil on Canvas

Description:

August Vilhelm Nikolaus Hagborg (1852 - 1921)

“Fiskare På Stranden I Bretagne “ (Fisherwomen on the Beach in Brittany)
Oil on canvas laid on board
48 X 30 inches Unframed
56 x 38.5 inches Framed
Signed Lower left.
Provenance:
Estate in Holmdel NJ

August Hagborg arrived in France in 1875 and remained there until 1914, only interrupted during the summers when, like Zorn and Strindberg, he enjoyed painting in Dalarö in the Stockholm archipelago. After 1914, Hagborg also found inspiration in Dalarna. As early as 1875, Hagborg painted coastal scenes from Normandy, a theme to which he would remain faithful. His realistically executed figure depictions of the fishing community stand out against a backdrop where sea, sky, and beach often merge into a unity of light and space in yellow-grey-blue tones.

His father was an associate professor. Against the wishes of his parents, he decided on a career in art and, from 1872 to 1874, he studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm with Vicente Palmaroli. In 1875, he went to Paris to complete his training but ended by spending most of his life there. Initially, he focused on genre scenes and imagined historical scenes from 18th century France. Some of them were sent home and one was purchased by King Oscar II. When he began painting in Normandy and Brittany, he discovered some of the motifs that would come to dominate his work, such as beaches, fishermen and their families.

"Low Tide in the English Channel" was exhibited at the Salon in 1879 and was purchased by the Luxembourg Museum.
The publicity from that sale ensured his career. He became part of a circle of Swedish painters that included Prince Eugen, a gifted amateur artist. He was a regular exhibitor at the Salon from 1876 to 1909. In 1878, he represented Sweden at the Exposition Universelle with a large portrait of a fisherman carrying his daughter in his arms. At the Salon of 1880, he was presented with a bust of himself by the Swedish sculptor, Ingel Fallstedt. He was later named a member of the Société nationale des beaux-arts. In 1885, he supported a group known as the "Opponenterna" that was protesting what they felt were the archaic methods employed by the Royal Academy.

That same year, he married Gerda Christina Göthberg (1863–1934) in Stockholm. He had a successful showing at the Exposition Universelle in 1889. During summer visits to Sweden, he painted in Skåne and Dalarö. In 1909, he reversed his pattern, making his home in Sweden and visiting Paris. After 1914, he came to favor Dalarna for his painting and his works became more abstract. Upon his death, his body was returned to Sweden and buried at the Norra Begravningsplatsen, literally meaning "The Northern Burial Place" in Swedish, is a major cemetery of the Stockholm urban area, located in Solna Municipality. His works may be seen at the Nationalmuseum (Swedens Museum of Art and Design. and the Göteborgs konstmuseum (Gothenburg Museum of Art.)

Although Janez Knez keeps testing his creative power through various artistic practice, the virtuosic sensitivity for colour remains the continuity of his painting. The same is valid for his inclination to the figurativeness and the landscape which change on the canvas into autonomous and attractive colour composition by means of the artist's perception and experience, insubordinate to natural forms. The contemporary Knez's painting is cultivated and deeply premeditated, but at the same time dynamic, fresh and inspired, hardly pointing to a personality with a fifty-year-long painter's experience.
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