Eugene Jansson (Stockholm, 1862 - 1915) is a painter Symbolist Swedish.

Biography

Born with Stockholm in the district from Normalm within a modest family and musician, Eugene Jansson will be encouraged in his efforts to become painter in spite of his fragile health and the financial problems of his family. Raise with the royal Académie of the Art schools in 1881, which it leaves for an employment in the workshop of Persus, one of its professors. He takes part in exposures since 1885 and in 1890, they are the first sights of Stockholm initially of day then in the twilight. It will be famous for its night, blue and enlightened sights, of its city and the archipelago of Stockholm the summer. It stops on blue in its landscapes Nocturnes in reference to Chopin, his favorite musician.

It becomes acquainted with August Strindberg and some museums and of generous patrons as Ernest Thiel will buy fabrics to him, even if other museums refuse gifts of the artist. About 1900, It paints proletarian works of inspiration, and there will remain an enthusiastic Socialist all his life.

From 1904, it paints large fabrics having for subject the male body naked, athletic, young men whom it meets in the establishments of baths of the Navy and whom it brings back in his workshop transformed into room of drive. He at that time attended much the places of pleasure of Stockholm. Its painting then encounters against a great resistance and some mockeries.

In 1913, its health condition is degraded, and until 1915 it paints scenes of circus. It is victim in 1915 of a brain hemorrhage and dies in 1918. At the time of his funerals, his/her friend the painter Karl Nordstöm evoked: “ a daydream dark and reserved and a tender melancholy, a research in this blue night of an ideal through the human body ”.

Painter unknown out of Sweden, singular, bold and innovative, constantly anxious, it followed a strange course, haunted by the night, the desire, and death.

Works

• proletarian Dwellings , 1898, Museum of Orsay, room of the Symbolists.

Recent exposures

• Three tables during the Exposure Lights of North to the Petit Palais in Paris in 1987.
• Museum of Orsay, a retrospective in 1999, Night Swedish .

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