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Christian Berg

(Sweden, 1893-1976)
Christian Berg
(Sweden, 1893-1976)

Christian Berg, "Den gamle Peer Gynt"

Sculpture, patinated bronze, signed Chr. Berg. EX. III, concipated in 1943. Height 43 cm. Mounted on stone base, total height 58.5 cm. Medföljande bok "Christian Berg - Sven Sandström".

Tarnisch and surface dirt.

Provenance

Win in an art lottery, 1950s.

Literature

Sven Sandström, "Christian Berg - Livslinjer och formtankar", 1962, mentioned p. 35 and another example illustrated p. 37.
Torvald Berg, "Christian min upplevelse av skulptören Christian Berg: en illustrerad berättelse om far, hans liv och arbete", 1991, listed under portraits p. 203, and compare with image p. 107.

More information

Skulpturen är ett rollporträtt av den "Den gamle Peer Grynt" som gestaltas av skådespelaren Hans Jacob Nilsen.

Sven Sandström skriver:

"På hösten 1942 såg Christian i Malmö en föreställning av Peer Gynt som gavs av Riksteatern, och där norske teaterchefen Hans Jacob Nilsen spelade huvud- rollen. Han blev fängslad av det ypperliga rollporträttet, och på våren 1943 sökte han i Stockholm upp den landsflyktige skådespelaren som samtyckte att sitta modell för honom. Arbetet blev inte minst krävande för modellen, som före varje sittning lade sin Peer Gynt-mask med stor omsorg. Skulpturen blev alltså i viss mån en tolkning av en konstnärlig skapelse, men den utnyttjar också denna utgångspunkt för att stilisera det dramatiska uttrycket förbi den mimiska tillfälligheten: porträttet har blivit en modern tragisk teatermask, men med mycket bevarat av den enskilda rollskapelsen. De djärvare rytmer som skulptören letade fram, tog skådespelaren med förtjusning upp i sin maskering, och han använde framgångsrikt den lätt geometriserade sminkningen på sina turnéer. (Sven Sandström - Christian Berg, 1962, sid.35)

Artist

Christian Berg was a Swedish sculptor. He commenced his career as a naturalistic animal painter and he up until 1926 retained his artistry solely to painting. He encountered post-cubism whilst in Paris, which quickly became his artistic language. The road to sculpting he found one day when, with the help of clay, solved a problem with the lines of a drawn torso. Berg’s first sculpture, Torso 1926, became the starting point to his most intensive and active period of 1926-30. He created a collection of post-cubist sculptures and many torsos in various stages of development. He primarily worked with clearly defined concave and convex forms, allowing light to play on alternating glossy and matte surfaces. With the exception of his numerous stylised portrait sculptures ecclesiastical decorations, Berg remained loyal to abstract sculptures during the entirety of his artistic career.

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