Interior and Crescent
Georg Harald Slott-Möller (Kopenhagen 1864 - Kopenhagen 1937)
Lot-No. 442
Proceeds : 2.300 €
1896, oil/canvas, 55 x 40 cm, on the reverse authentication by the daughter Lykke Slott-Möller. - Danish painter and designer. S.-M. studied 1883-86 at the Copenhagen academy and was pupil of P. S. Kröyer. After travelling extensively in Italy, France and England he was head of the Fayence manufacture Aluminia in Copenhagen from 1902 to 1906. S.-M. was one of the important naturalists and symbolists in Denmark before the turn of the century; some of his interiors take up the tranquil atmosphere of the paintings of his contemporaries Hammershöi and Ilsted. His wife Agnes S.-M. was an important painter too. Mus.: Florence (Uffizi), Copenhagen, Flensburg a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Weilbach.
Georg Harald Slott-Möller: Interior and Crescent
Georg Harald Slott-Möller (Kopenhagen 1864 - Kopenhagen 1937)
Interior and Crescent
Lot-No. 442
Proceeds : 2.300 €
1896, oil/canvas, 55 x 40 cm, on the reverse authentication by the daughter Lykke Slott-Möller. - Danish painter and designer. S.-M. studied 1883-86 at the Copenhagen academy and was pupil of P. S. Kröyer. After travelling extensively in Italy, France and England he was head of the Fayence manufacture Aluminia in Copenhagen from 1902 to 1906. S.-M. was one of the important naturalists and symbolists in Denmark before the turn of the century; some of his interiors take up the tranquil atmosphere of the paintings of his contemporaries Hammershöi and Ilsted. His wife Agnes S.-M. was an important painter too. Mus.: Florence (Uffizi), Copenhagen, Flensburg a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Weilbach.