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This title features stunning watercolour paintings by one of Sweden's best-loved artists. It offers fascinating insight into Swedish rural and artistic life in the late nineteenth century. It is accompanied by an explanatory text giving more detail about his life and techniques. Carl Larsson is one of Sweden's best-loved artists. His stunning watercolours of his home and family from the end of the nineteenth century are acclaimed as one of the richest records of life at that time. The paintings in this book all depict Larsson's home in the village of Sundborn in west Sweden, where he lived with his wife Karin and eight children for many years. The accompanying text provides a fascinating insight into Larsson family life, and Carl's painting techniques. Today, over 60,000 tourists a year visit Sundborn to admire Larsson's home and work.
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Carl Larsson (1853-1919) was born into a poor family in Stockholm, Sweden. He was accepted to the Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts at the age of thirteen and spent several years working as a newspaper and magazine illustrator. He moved to Paris, where, as a penniless artist, he met his wife Karin, also an artist. In 1888 they moved back to Sundborn in Sweden. Carl Larsson is best known for his lovely watercolour paintings of his home and family which were popularised through a series of books.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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When a swedish friend wrote to say she had just visited Carl Larssons house, did I know this artist? I knew one of his pictures, a young girl watering flowers on a windowsill, there is a table with knitting on it. A picture I have always admired, so I went to Amazon to find out more, and they came up with this book. So I ordered it, liked it so much with those super drawings, so atmospheric of this family in Sweden, summer and winter - I was going to send it on to my Swedish friend who didnt know of it, but kept my copy and sent another to her, which she too loved and keeps it open at certain pages just to look at the pictures. The children are young and very charming, whether being punished, working in the house, or picnicing on Rumble Island, everyone likes looking at this book, my husband included. The text is taken from the original for the english version and is full of information but not in the first voice. A picture book full of charm by an artist who rose from very humble beginnings to give pleasure to his readers. Apparently the studio with the flowers still exists in the house now open to the public in Sweden.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I read this as a child and the illustrations were very good a simple tale of times before tv etc
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A casual family meal is being enjoyed out of doors. A large brown dog (known as `Kapo') is sitting tidily on his seat, seriously pondering the white cloth of the laden table. Two dark bottles of beer are keeping cool in the long grass, while a white hen busily forages in the background. A silver birch with low dipping greenery frames the scene; an open window airs the red walled wooden house. Four colourfully clad daughters and two blue shirted and cap headed sons are tucking in with relish. Karin is at one end of the table; an empty chair at the other, for it is father Carl who is the artist.
This familiar sight is the attractive cover jacket for `A Home', also replicated on the hardback covers. Inside `A Home' the theme is the same as the two other Floris Books: A Family: Paintings from a Bygone Age and A Farm: Paintings from a Bygone Age. That is with the explanatory text on the left and with the paintings on the right. Telling the story of the family really brings the work to life.
Carl and Karin were the Sarah Beeny and Graham Swift of their day. Never before had pictures of interiors created such a buzz. Here was a comfortable, less restricted, warm and vibrant way of decorating that others could emulate and imagine as more than suitable for their own homes.
The family lived at Lilla Hyttnas, Sundborn, for thirty years. Their home sprouted and grew rooms and workspaces to suit their needs. All joined in the decoration of the woodwork panels. Karin was fond of weaving and designing patterns for the loom; she had some time to herself as they employed a cook, Emma and a maid, Anna. Pans were polished, butter was churned, the stove burned day and night through the Swedish winters.
`The Naughty Step' is not a new idea; the Larsson children were disciplined in the drawing room by being made to sit in `The Punishment Corner'.
My favourite painting is the one of the crayfish feast. All are happy in the sunshine, some wearing their best clothes, some are fishing with their skirts hitched into their knickers, others watching the fire and the traps, so much is taking place, you can feel that you are part of the fun.
A joy to look through.
This familiar sight is the attractive cover jacket for `A Home', also replicated on the hardback covers. Inside `A Home' the theme is the same as the two other Floris Books: A Family: Paintings from a Bygone Age and A Farm: Paintings from a Bygone Age. That is with the explanatory text on the left and with the paintings on the right. Telling the story of the family really brings the work to life.
Carl and Karin were the Sarah Beeny and Graham Swift of their day. Never before had pictures of interiors created such a buzz. Here was a comfortable, less restricted, warm and vibrant way of decorating that others could emulate and imagine as more than suitable for their own homes.
The family lived at Lilla Hyttnas, Sundborn, for thirty years. Their home sprouted and grew rooms and workspaces to suit their needs. All joined in the decoration of the woodwork panels. Karin was fond of weaving and designing patterns for the loom; she had some time to herself as they employed a cook, Emma and a maid, Anna. Pans were polished, butter was churned, the stove burned day and night through the Swedish winters.
`The Naughty Step' is not a new idea; the Larsson children were disciplined in the drawing room by being made to sit in `The Punishment Corner'.
My favourite painting is the one of the crayfish feast. All are happy in the sunshine, some wearing their best clothes, some are fishing with their skirts hitched into their knickers, others watching the fire and the traps, so much is taking place, you can feel that you are part of the fun.
A joy to look through.
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