Welcome to the domestic world of Swedish Arts & Crafts artist Carl Larsson, renowned for his interior scenes that often included one or more of his many children.
Welcome to the domestic world of Swedish Arts & Crafts artist Carl Larsson, renowned for his interior scenes that often included one or more of his many children.
This download features 44 hi-res images in JPEG format by the artist Carl Larsson.
The images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3336 pixels wide/tall to 5696 pixels wide/tall.
The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.
Carl Olof Larsson (1853-1919) was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolours and frescoes. He is principally known for his watercolours of idyllic family life. He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot (Midwinter Sacrifice), a large painting now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.
Larsson was born on 28 May 1853, in the Gamla stan neighbourhood of Stockholm, Sweden. His parents were extremely poor, and his childhood was not happy.
Larsson's father worked as a casual labourer, 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.
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