August Strindberg — Landscape Study | Swedish Expressionist Print

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August Strindberg — Landscape Study | Swedish Expressionist PrintAugust Strindberg (18491912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, and polymath who was also, in the intervals between writing, a serious and original visual artist. His paintings stormy seascapes, moody forests, dark urban landscapes were produced during periods of psychological crisis and have the raw, unpolished energy of a non academic artist working directly from inner necessity. Now held in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, his paintings are

and the inner life with a comparable depth and seriousness

deeply rhythmic style that was entirely his own

often humorous — combine the rigour of Bauhaus formal analysis with a fairy-tale lightness that is entirely

Breaking with the decorative complexity of Art Nouveau

and Cachou Lajaunie remain among the most recognised images of pre-war European visual culture

Angrand was intimate: his charcoal drawings in particular — tender

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207–1273) was a 13th-century Persian Sufi mystic

Edgar Degas

His flag paintings

her work only fully recognized in the late 20th century

Where Hokusai gave us landscape and Hiroshige gave us atmosphere

in any light