iPrins Eugens Waldemarsudde · Djurgården
Wonderful Colour – Gothenburg Colourism in a New Light
The 1930s Gothenburg Colourists, from Åke Göransson and Ivan Ivarson to Karin Parrow and Ragnar Sandberg, in a fresh look made with the Gothenburg Museum of Art.
The painting Waldemarsudde chose to stand for this show is Ragnar Sandberg's Hands at the Bar Counter from 1937, nearly a metre square. Like most of the colourists, Sandberg trained under Tor Bjurström at Valand in Gothenburg in the 1920s, and like several of them he came from a modest background. They painted what was nearby: the city, models, the west coast.
There are about 90 works, most lent by the Gothenburg Museum of Art, where a first version opened in 2023. You get the famous five (Göransson, Ivarson, Nilsson, Sandberg, Schiöler), then the painters the story usually leaves out, among them Märta Taube-Ivarson and Karin Parrow, plus forerunners such as Karl Isakson. It is a show about light, and it runs straight through December, when Stockholm's daylight is gone before three.
Waldemarsudde adds its own pieces and new work by Ebba Svensson and Bella Rune. Admission is SEK 170, free up to 19, card only; Thursdays run until 20:00.
Editor's pick
The 1930s Gothenburg Colourists Åke Göransson, Ivan Ivarson, Karin Parrow and Ragnar Sandberg, made with the Gothenburg Museum of Art and hung in Prince Eugen's waterside gallery. Proof Stockholm and Gothenburg can agree on something.
Look for
Hands at the Bar Counter
Ragnar Sandberg's 1937 canvas of hands resting at a bar, 98 by 93 cm, is the image the museum leads the show with.
Koster, painted twice
Look for Lena Cronqvist's pictures from the island of Koster hung beside Inge Schiöler's paintings of the same place, including his Summer Meadow, Koster (1966).
Bella Rune's textiles
Large sculptural textile works by a contemporary artist born in 1971, added here to show colour and light working in a room today.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Nerding Out
With kids
Visitors up to 19 get in free. The museum has run a family Sunday for this show, a short tour followed by a collage workshop, recommended from age 5.
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- Wonderful Colour – Gothenburg Colourism in a New LightFrancesco Bini / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Ylva Snöfrid: The House of the MusesCourtesy of Liljevalchs konsthall
- MUCHA – Beyond Art NouveauCourtesy of Artipelag
- Reflections through timePhoto: Karin Björkquist
- Prins Eugens WaldemarsuddeArildV / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- SkansenHolger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- ABBA The MuseumI99pema / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Liljevalchs konsthallHolger Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- The Viking MuseumSinikka Halme / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0