Peter Dahl
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"Vinterutsikt från Aspudden mot nordost"
Signed Peter Dahl and dated 1993 on verso. Canvas 170 x 200 cm.
Provenance
The family of the artist.
Exhibitions
Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 1994.
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, "Peter Dahl - Se tillbaka och blicka framåt", 20 March - 24 May, 1999, cat no 100.
Zornmuseet, Mora, "Peter Dahl", 3 December 2011 - 11 March 2012.
Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm, "Peter Dahls världar", 4 May—19 August 2018.
Literature
Folke Edwards, "Peter Dahl", Stockholm, 1996, illustrated in colour p. 143.
Exhibition catalogue, Zornmuseet, Mora, "Peter Dahl", 3 December 2011 - 11 March 2012, mentioned and illustrated p. 74-75.
Exhibition catalogue, Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm, "Peter Dahls världar", 4 May—19 August 2018, illustrated in colour p. 123.
More information
In the beginning of the 1990s Peter Dahl started to paint large canvases depicting his magnificent view from his studio in Aspudden, south of Stockholm. His take is more impressionistic than expressionistic, and he studies his subject in different seasons with great patience. Dahl doesn’t embellish or mystify the natur. He looks at it with a distant gaze without sentimental or mysterious feelings, nature is his model and object of study. “Vinterutsikt från Aspudden mot nordost (Winter view from Aspudden to the northeast)” is one of the most significant landscape depictions of Swedish art in the 1900s.
Artist
Peter Dahl is painter, printmaker, sculptor, and author. He was born in Oslo and came to Stockholm during the war years of the 1940s, studying at cadémie Libre in 1957 and then attended the Royal Institute of Art from 1958 to 1963 under the guidance of Lennart Rhode. He worked as a teacher at Gelesborg’s school during the 60s and 70s, and was the head professor of painting at Valand Art Academy in Gothenburg from 1975-79. Dahl paints in an expressive, realistic style with bright colours, sensual figure compositions, his art a vessel for his criticism towards upper class luxury and petty bourgeois environments. Influenced by the expressionism of Francis Bacon, he depicted the sequence of events in Medelsvensson's daydreams about "the sweet life" in the upper social group in a series of images. Over the years, Peter Dahl continued with thematic painting. From 1981 to 1984, he illustrated Fredman's Epistles in 87 pictures.
He is outgoing and often depicts his own life with a touch of self-irony. His work is rooted in Swedish tradition, often revisiting and renewing old themes. In recent years, his style has become softer and more sensual, with his dance and bacchanalian motifs taking on a Rococo-like quality. As a printmaker, Dahl is particularly known for his congenial illustrations of Bellman's "Fredman's Epistles." Peter Dahl is considered one of the great artists of our time, immensely productive and consistently popular.
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