
Carl Olof Larssonスウェーデン, 1853–1919お目にかかれますか?
ストックホルム, スウェーデン
所蔵者はわかっています。いま展示されているかどうかは美術館が公表しておらず、当て推量は私どもの流儀ではありません。
Carl Larsson was deeply attached to his mother, Johanna, but his difficult childhood had caused some tension in their relationship. In his autobiography, written many years after her death, he notes: “But look at the small watercolour portrait of my mother in her old age, which is now hanging at the Nationalmuseum. Is she not blithe! She loves both her son and everyone else, that ugly, old, biddy. Whom I once thought so fair!”
スウェーデン国立美術館
1884–1900
Eight children, the artist’s favourite models
Carl and Karin had eight children: Suzanne (b. 1884), Ulf (1887), Pontus (1888), Lisbeth (1891), Brita (1893), Mats (1894), Kersti (1896) and Esbjörn (1900). Ulf died at eighteen and Mats at the age of two months, and the life of the family became Larsson’s chief subject.
1886–1891
Director of the Valand School in Gothenburg
In 1886 he accepted the post of director of the Valand School of Fine Art in Gothenburg, which he held until 1891. Among his pupils was Ester Almqvist, to whom he dedicated an etching.
1891年10月21日
Daughter born: Lisbeth Larsson
1893年5月10日
Daughter born: Brita Larsson
1894年11月27日
Son born: Mats Larsson
1895–1913
Picture books about home and family
He wrote and illustrated a series of books: De mina (My Loved Ones, 1895), Ett hem (A Home, 1899), Larssons (The Larssons, 1902), Spadarfvet (A Farm, 1906), Åt solsidan (On the Sunny Side, 1910) and Andras barn (Other People’s Children, 1913).