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Carl Larsson (28 May 1853 – 22 January 1919) was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He considered his finest work to be ''Midvinterblot'' (''Midwinter Sacrifice''), a large painting now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts. ==Biography== Larsson was born on 28 May 1853 in the old town of Stockholm, at 78 Prästgatan.〔"The official homepage of the artist Carl Larsson", Carl and Karin Larsson Family Association, 2007, (clg.se )〕 His parents were extremely poor, and his childhood was not happy. Renate Puvogel, in her book ''Larsson'', gives detailed information about Carl's life: "His mother was thrown out of the house, together with Carl and his brother Johan; after enduring a series of temporary dwellings, the family moved into Grev Magnigränd No. 7 (later No. 5) in what was then Ladugårdsplan, present-day Östermalm".〔(Renate, Larsson, Taschen Editions, Köln, 2006 )〕 As a rule, each room was home to three families; "penury, filth and vice thrived there, leisurely seethed and smouldered, eaten-away and rotten bodies and souls. Such an environment is the natural breeding ground for cholera", he wrote in his autobiographical novel Me (''Jag'').〔(Stockholm, 1931, p. 21 )〕 Larsson's father worked as a casual laborer, sailed as a stoker on a ship headed for Scandinavia, and lost the lease to a nearby mill, only to work there later as a mere grain carrier. Larsson portrays him as a loveless man lacking self-control; he drank, ranted and raved, and incurred the lifelong anger of his son after an outburst in which he declared, "I curse the day you were born". In contrast, Carl's mother worked long hours as a laundress to provide for her family.〔Puvogel Renate, ''Larsson'', Taschen Editions, Köln, 2006〕 However, at the age of thirteen, his teacher Jacobsen, at the school for poor children urged him to apply to the "principskola" of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, and he was admitted. During his first years there, Larsson felt socially inferior, confused, and shy.〔 In 1869, at the age of sixteen, he was promoted to the "antique school" of the same academy. There Larsson gained confidence, and even became a central figure in student life. Carl earned his first medal in nude drawing. In the meantime, Larsson worked as a caricaturist for the humorous paper ''Kasper'' and as a graphic artist for the newspaper ''Ny Illustrerad Tidning''. His annual wages were sufficient to allow him to help support his parents financially. After several years working as an illustrator of books, magazines, and newspapers, Larsson moved to Paris in 1877, where he spent several frustrating years as a hardworking artist without any success. Larsson was not eager to establish contact with the French progressive Impressionists; instead, along with other Swedish artists, he cut himself off from the radical movement of change. After spending two summers in Barbizon, the refuge of the plein-air painters, he settled down with his Swedish painter colleagues in 1882 in Grez-sur-Loing, at a Scandinavian artists' colony outside Paris. It was there that he met the artist Karin Bergöö, who soon became his wife. This was to be a turning point in Larsson's life. In Grez, Larsson painted some of his most important works, now in watercolour and very different from the oil painting technique he had previously employed. Carl and Karin Larsson had eight children (Suzanne (1884), Ulf (1887, who died at 18), Pontus (1888), Lisbeth (1891), Brita (1893), Mats (1894, who died at 2 months), Kersti (1896) and Esbjörn (1900)) and his family became Larsson's favourite models. Many of the interiors depicted were the work of Karin Larsson, who also worked as an interior designer. File:Martina med frukostbrickan.JPG|Martina with the breakfast tray. File:Carl Larsson Brita as Iduna.jpg|Brita as Iduna File:Carl Larsson Christmas Morning 1894.jpg|Christmas morning File:BritaAndI Selfportrait.jpg|Selfportrait with Brita File:Carl Larsson - Self Portrait.png|Selfportrait from 1906 File:Mammas och småflickornas rum av Carl Larsson 1897.jpg|The small girls' room File:Namnsdag på härbret av Carl Larsson 1898.jpg|Nameday at the storage house File:Köket av Carl Larsson 1898.jpg|The kitchen In 1888 the young family was given a small house, named Little Hyttnäs, in Sundborn by Karin's father Adolf Bergöö. Carl and Karin decorated and furnished this house according to their particular artistic taste and also for the needs of the growing family. In his later years he suffered from bouts of depression.〔Linde, Brita. "Larsson, Carl." ''Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online''. Oxford University Press. Web.〕 While working on a large decoration for the vestibule of the Nationalmuseum, ''Midvinterblot'', Larsson experienced the onset of an eye problem and a worsening of his frequent headaches.〔Carl, Klaus H. ''Carl Larsson'', Parkstone Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1-78310-585-4〕 After suffering a mild stroke in January 1919, he spent his remaining time completing his memoirs.〔 He died in Falun on 22 January 1919. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carl Larsson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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