Carl Kylberg
"Kvinnohuvud" (Female head)
Signed CK. Executed in 1936. Canvas 63.5 x 49 cm.
Obetydligt slitage längs kanterna efter ramen.
Obetydligt krackelyr och ytsmuts.
Inga övriga anmärkningar.
Provenance
Earlier in the collection of factory manager Helge Byström, Stockholm.
Exhibitions
Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, February 1937, cat no. 51.
Sundsvall, 1938.
Umeå, 1938.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Carl Kylberg", 20 April - 12 May 1946.
Literature
Brita Knyphausen, "Carl Kylberg", 1965, regisered as no. 208, p. 254.
Gustaf Näsström, "Carl Kylberg", 1952, illustrated p. 69.
More information
Frame executed by the artists wife, Ruth Kylberg.
Artist
Carl Kylberg, 1878-1952, is considered a seminal figure in the Swedish 1900-century art. He was a student at the architecture department at Berlin University and then a student of Carl Wilhelmson at Valand art school in Gothenburg.
Kylberg broke through late, made his debut as a painter in 1919 with the February group at Liljevalchs. He became known to a wider public by the age of 50, but continued to be controversial as an artist. He had a permanent artistic antagonist of Isaac Grünewald and the same year as the Nazis in Germany set up the decisive blow against Entartete Kunst and practically the whole of modernism, Swedish government stopped the purchase of the painting "Uppbrottet" of the National Museum in Stockholm.
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