Bruno Liljefors

Bruno Liljefors (the painting hung in his dining room until his death).
The artist's son Lindorm Liljefors (by descent).
Managing director Erik Ekblad, Sjöeryd Manor House (acquired from the above mentioned).
Managing director Hans Wallenstam, Gothenburg.
Private collection.

Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, ”Invigningsutställning – Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn”, March – April 1916, no. 49.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Carl Larsson. Bruno Liljefors. Anders Zorn", 9 July - 17 August 1930, no. 107.

Ernst Malmberg, "Larsson-Liljefors-Zorn. En återblick", 1919, mentioned p. 73 and illustrated in interior photo in the plate section.

Bruno Liljefors is the Swedish artist best known for his nature and animal motifs, especially in dramatic situations. Liljefors started with studies at the Academy of Arts in 1879, and continued 1882 in Düsseldorf where the studies revolved around animal painting. The journey then continued to Venice, Rome, Naples, Paris and Grez. Once back in Sweden, he began to draw and paint animals, especially cats and small birds, from the beginning in intimate interaction with nature. He then moved on to broader depictions of wild animals and nature, of seascapes with seabirds and of dramatic scenes of battles between birds. Liljefors is known as our country's foremost animal painter with a large production. Liljefors depicted, in contrast to the "idyllic" animal painting, the animals everyday life with a focus on movement, anatomy and their adaptation to the landscape. This is where the greatness of his painting lies, in the ability to show the animals in their proper environment. He has achieved this by hunting and observing. Well-known works of art are the paintings "Rävfamilj" (1886) and "Havsörnar" (1897), as well as the sculpture "Lek" (1930) at Stockholm Stadium. Liljefors is mainly represented at the National Museum, Waldemarsudde and the Thielska gallery in Stockholm.