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Artist: August Strindberg (1849–1912)
Swedish painter and writer
Title: Coastal Landscape
Object type: Painting
Description: August Strindberg only painted landscapes – often shores and seascapes from the Stockholm archipelago. He liked to depict stormy seas with foaming waves, but here the water is calm. In his autobiographical novel The Son of a Servant, Strindberg writes that ‘one should give expression to one’s inner feelings and not depict mere sticks and stones’. He managed to create something original as both a writer and an artist, but recognition of and real interest in his painting would not come until the 1960s, long after his death.
Date: 1903
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Height: 76 cm (29.9 in). Width: 55 cm (21.7 in).
Framed: Height: 83 cm (32.7 in). Width: 63 cm (24.8 in). Depth: 5 cm (2 in).
Inscriptions (Swedish): Signerad: August Strindberg 1903 [på baksidan]
SKU: 275087
