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Carl Wilhelmson
27.2 - 8.8 2010
Bohusläns museum in Uddevalla is delighted to be able to present a wideranging retrospective exhibition of some 70 works by one of the finest painters of Sweden’s west coast, namely Carl Wilhelmson.
Carl Wilhelmson (1866–1928) was born in Fiskebäckskil,
a fishing village situated to the north of Gothenburg. As a painter he established a reputation as one of Sweden’s leading romantic nationalists. He specialized in portraying the life and customs of Bohuslän and produced numerous paintings of the local inhabitants and their rather barren countryside.
He portrayed his native surroundings with a sense of melancholy in a number of famous paintings including To Church by Boat and On the Mountainside. Wilhelmson also painted well-known motifs from other parts of Sweden, as well as documenting his visits to Spain and England.
Kyrkfokl i båt, 1909
Carl Wilhelmson started out as a lithographer but continued to study art at what is now the Valand School. His teacher was the famous painter Carl Larsson whose first opinion of his young pupil was the drastic ”he’ll never amount to anything”. Larsson later revised his opinion. After studies in Paris Carl Wilhelmson won a prize at the 1897 Salon with his painting The Sick Child. Carl Wilhelmson was soon appointed as teacher of painting and principal of his old art school.
Fiskarkvinnor på väg från kyrkan, 1899
With roots in the realism of the 1880s he developed his painting in the direction of modernism’s bright colours and style as well as the ”New Objectivity” of the 1920s.
His paintings from the 1910s are notable for their portrayal of light with paint applied in spots and Wilhelmson developed his own version of pointillism. The exhibition has been produced by Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde in collaboration with Bohusläns museum.
Hoppande hund, 1920
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