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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 6, 2022 | Stockholms Auktionsverk | Stockholm | Fine Art & Antiques | 577 | $****** - ****** | Midsummer flowers |
paintings
93 x 72 cm (36.61 x 28.35 in)
oil on Board
Midsummer flowers Signed Olle Hjortzberg and dated 1950
OLLE HJORTZBERG. Midsummer flowers, oil on Board, 93 x 72 cm.
OLLE HJORTZBERG 1872-1959 Midsummer flowers Signed Olle Hjortzberg and dated 1950. Oil on Board 93 x 72 cm.
Olle Hjortzberg is perhaps best known for his clear, airy and appreciated still lifes with our most beloved summer flowers. In a fresh and unbound realistic style, Hjortzberg uses all the colors of the palette to capture the eternal beauty that can only be found in nature. Exotic orchids as well as Swedish white lilies were composed into still lifes of various formats. However, Hjortzberg"s artistry is not only connected to still life, but his career was both long and multifaceted and came to include several different types of artistic assignments.
In 1892, Hjortzberg was accepted as a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1898 he made the first of many study trips abroad, which had a profound effect on his art. After visiting Paris and Rome, Hjortzberg continued in 1900 to Greece, Syria and Palestine. An important event of considerable importance to his artistry was the encounter with the Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna. All these places, with their rich history and place for early modern civilizations, became a sounding board for Hjortzberg"s artistry, which is perhaps most clearly noticeable in the large decoration assignments of church room interiors he carried out. Among the more famous of the artist"s works as a mural painter are the paintings in the Engelbrekt Church, which were begun in 1913, as well as the wall paintings in Linköping"s learning center from 1916. Both of these decorative works exhibit, for Hjortzberg, the typical elements of swelling, Art Nouveau plant ornamentation. Hjortzberg was also no stranger to the style ideals of the English Morris movement, which were extensively used in the many posters Hjortzberg composed as an innovator in the field. An appreciated example is the poster for the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912.Show more
