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Carl Larsson: The Painter of everyday

This is the story of a man born poor, and how talent, persistence and determination can change lives.

Looking
paintings by Carl Larsson, one of Sweden's greatest painters at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century, one can not help but feel transported into an atmosphere of intimacy and confidence, everything here seems to warm and serene home household activities , voices and laughter of children.

However Larsson's painting is far from being a faithful portrait of a sweet romance, and can be considered, more realistically, a kind of visual diary of ' artist, who over the years has played in his paintings in watercolor, the daily reality around him.
Carl Larsson was born in Stockholm May 28, 1853. His was a very poor family and lived in such a condition of misery that the painter, later, will write down in his autobiography: 'It was hell on earth! Hunger was the least of our problems with the time you get used to survive with just a rule ... we had nothing ... The wear is raging, violent fights broke out around us, we lived in the middle of the prostitution, and thieves to murderers declared '.
Carl, however, seemed to have inherited from his maternal grandfather, a painter by profession, a real artistic talent, his art teacher at the school of the poor did not fail to note recommending the then Carl thirteen at the Art Academy in Stockholm.
His first job was for the newspaper comic Kasper, and later as a graphic artist for the newspaper Ny Illustread Tidning, whose annual salary even allowed him to help her parents financially.
In 1877 he left for Paris, who was then the center of Western art, and then moved later in Grez, 70 kilometers from the capital. There he discovered the technique of watercolor, and devised a method of applying paint in a thin and delicately veiled, which would have marked his future artistic career. The prestige of
Larsson went gradually increasing, until, after numerous attempts rejected in 1883 his paintings were accepted into the Paris show and even rewarded.
The 1883 was an important year for another significant event in the life of Larsson: Bergöö marriage to Karin, who was devoted to his wife and muse. Karin mother of his seven children was, until the end, the companion of his critical path, and an inexhaustible source of life and light, as can be seen in the many watercolors that depicted the Larsson over the years.

The young family received Larsson a gift from the father of Karin 'Lilla Hyttnäs, Sundborn's cottage, north of Stockholm, stabilendovisi permanently in 1891. From this moment you can let the artist tell the story entirely from her album of watercolors, from which it draws a clear picture of the house and its inhabitants, their habits and those of the inhabitants of which revolved around the Sundborn propetà.

Larsson worked until shortly before his death on January 22, 1919. Today Sundborn
house has become a museum dedicated to the artist, unanimously considered one of the greatest painters in Sweden.