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Swedish 18k White Gold, Diamond and Pearl Earrings, Mid-20th Century
Located in Stockholm, SE
These 18 karat white gold earrings are adorned with diamonds (approx. 0,20 ctv) and cultured pearls. Each earring has six old cut and octagon cut diamonds...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Dangle Earrings
Materials
Diamond, Pearl, White Gold
Silver Bracelet by Swedish Smith Jan Brunk Made Year, 1991
Located in Stockholm, SE
This fixed sterling silver bracelet has a glossy and hammered surface. The width of the bracelet varies and goes from 13 mm up to 21 mm.
The bracelet will fit well both in an everyd...
Category
1990s Swedish Bangles
Materials
Silver
Silver Bangles by Swedish Rey Urban Made Year 1981/1982
By Rey Urban
Located in Stockholm, SE
These five sterling silver bangles have a matt and partly hammered surface. They may be described as simple, smart and fashionable and they can be worn at the office, in school or fo...
Category
Vintage 1980s Swedish Bangles
Materials
Silver
18k Gold Neck Ring by Swedish Master Claës Giertta Made Year 1968
Located in Stockholm, SE
This 18 karat gold neck ring has a shiny, textured surface. The shape of the neck ring may be described as semi oval with an accentuated front. The neck ring...
Category
Vintage 1960s Swedish Choker Necklaces
Materials
18k Gold
Asymmetrical Silver and Gold Ring by Swedish Master Sigurd Persson Year, 1978
By Sigurd Persson
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sterling silver ring has gold on its top. This joyful creation looks like a piece of a puzzle.
The ring has an unique form and it radiates attitude. It is a perfect fit in bot...
Category
Vintage 1970s Swedish Band Rings
Asymmetrical Silver and Gold Ring by Swedish Master Sigurd Persson, Year 1978
By Sigurd Persson
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sterling silver ring has gold on its top. This joyful creation looks like a piece of a puzzle.
The ring has an unique form and it radiates attitude. It is a perfect fit in bot...
Category
Vintage 1970s Swedish Band Rings
Materials
Gold, Silver
Double Strand Pearl Necklace with a 18k Gold Lock
Located in Stockholm, SE
This double strand pearl necklace has cultured pearls with a beautiful creamy color. The necklace closes with a 18 karat gold hook which fastens in a bracket decorated with a green s...
Category
Late 20th Century Scandinavian Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Pearl, 18k Gold
Silver Spiral Bracelet by Swedish smith Lars Håkansson. Made Year 1981
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sterling silver bracelet is fixed and it has a glossy surface. On top it is adorned with a silver spiral. The bracelet opens easily with a clasp. A very smart open and close fun...
Category
Vintage 1980s Swedish Bangles
Materials
Silver
Silver, Red Stone and Beads Brooch by Thomas Raschke
Located in Stockholm, SE
This brooch is adorned with an asymmetric red stone and a square that contains beads strung on wire.
This unusual creation is what we would call a happy item and it can easily be ca...
Category
Early 2000s German Brooches
Materials
Silver
Swedish Silver Necklace Made Year 1954
Located in Stockholm, SE
This silver necklace has a glossy surface. The small silver plates are shaped as perfect silver shells and they are connected together with silver rings. The necklace closes easily with a box clasp and it has also a safety chain.
This is a piece of jewelry that can be worn with anything; a gala dress...
Category
Vintage 1950s Swedish Link Necklaces
Materials
Silver
Silver and Red Stone Ring by Thomas Raschke
Located in Stockholm, SE
This silver ring is adorned with an asymmetric red stone and a silver square that contains movable thin twisted silver bars.
This unusual creation is what we would call a happy item...
Category
Early 2000s German Cocktail Rings
Materials
Silver
Silver Brooch Made 1938 by Wiwen Nilsson, Sweden
By Wiwen Nilsson
Located in Stockholm, SE
This brooch is shaped as a monogram of the letters G and N, but this arty design may be worn by anyone. The brooch has a unique shape and size and will easily go with any jacket, blo...
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Brooches
Materials
Silver
Vintage Labradorites Necklace with a Silver Pendant by Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe
By Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe
Located in Stockholm, SE
The pendant features an organically shaped center section, inspired by the Möbius strip, and is crafted in sterling silver. A silver and chalcedony drop has been added to the Möbius pendant by Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe. Accompanying the pendant is a necklace made of faceted, shimmering labradorite stones.
If you're a fan of casual outfits, such as summer dresses with sandals or jeans paired with a nice top, this necklace is perfect for you. Regardless of your attire, this necklace will help you achieve that relaxed, effortlessly chic look that many of us strive for.
Did you know that Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe was good friends with Billie Holiday? Other famous wearers, besides Billie Holiday, were Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Gréco...
Category
Late 20th Century Danish Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Silver
Silver Necklace Made in Stockholm, Sweden 1960 by Ray Urban
By Rey Urban
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sterling silver necklace consists of 19 oval, beautifully arched discs. The necklace is adjustable and it closes easily with a hook.
The necklace has a clear luster and it will be a perfect fit to either the evening or the office dress...
Category
Vintage 1960s Swedish Link Necklaces
Materials
Silver
Necklace Made of Silver and 14 K Gold, Toftegaards, 1980s
Located in Stockholm, SE
This necklace has a mixture of matt sterling silver and 14 karat shiny gold. The design can be described as timeless and elegant simple. The necklace is perfect for both dinner parties and everyday use...
Category
Vintage 1980s Danish Choker Necklaces
Materials
Silver
Silver Necklace with Rock Crystal Cross, Made by Wiwen Nilsson in 1939, Sweden
By Wiwen Nilsson
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sterling silver necklace shows upon typical Wiwen Nilsson characteristics; the pendant which is shaped as a Greek cross with square rock crystals, and the ring and bar chain.
...
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Chain Necklaces
Materials
Rock Crystal, Silver
Silver Necklace with Jasper Stone Made in 1967, Swedish
Located in Stockholm, SE
This silver neck-ring has a pendant made out of sterling silver and a cabochon cut variegated jasper stone in dark green and red. The top of the pendant is decorated with a spiral ma...
Category
Vintage 1960s Swedish Choker Necklaces
Materials
Jasper, Silver
Necklace Made by Wiwen Nilsson in 1938, Sweden
By Wiwen Nilsson
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sterling silver necklace shows upon typical Wiwen Nilsson characteristics; the geometric lines, the clean-cuts, the modern design and brushed silver, the square faceted cut rock...
Category
Vintage 1930s Swedish Chain Necklaces
Materials
Rock Crystal, Silver
18 K Gold Necklace with Large Dropshaped Quartz Stone
Located in Stockholm, SE
This 18 karat gold neck-ring has a large drop shaped, transparent and peach colored quartz stone with dramatic inclusions. On top of the pendant drop is a large 18 karat bail and the...
Category
1990s Swedish Pendant Necklaces
Materials
Quartz, 18k Gold
Silver Bracelet Made by Rey Urban, Stockholm, Sweden in 1965
By Rey Urban
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sterling silver cuff bracelet has a glossy surface. Its shape resembles a napkin-ring with two beautifully bent arms. Its upper part runs in a straight as well as in an arciform...
Category
Vintage 1960s Swedish Cuff Bracelets
Materials
Silver
$930 Sale Price
20% Off
Silver Bracelet Made by Borgila, Sweden in 1979
By Atelier Borgila
Located in Stockholm, SE
This bracelet is made with sterling silver and five square slate stones. The slate stones are linked together with silver rectangles. The bracelet closes easily with a box clasp whic...
Category
Vintage 1970s Swedish Link Bracelets
Materials
Silver
$1,044 Sale Price
20% Off
Silver Bracelet Made in 1959 by Sigurd Persson, Sweden
By Sigurd Persson
Located in Stockholm, SE
This silver cuff bracelet is excellent with its firm, geometrically curved arms and its endings that opens up to the sides. This bracelet is powerful and elegant at the same time and...
Category
Vintage 1950s Swedish Bangles
Materials
Silver
$1,376 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Earrings, Silver with Rock Crystals, Made in 1945 in Stockholm Sweden
Located in Stockholm, SE
These silver and carré cut rock crystal earrings have a feminine and classic shape. The earrings have so called screw backs, like many of the earrings during the early 1900s through ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Swedish Clip-on Earrings
Materials
Rock Crystal, Silver
A pair of Italian earrings, late 19th c. Pietra dura.
Located in Stockholm, SE
These earrings are made with the decorative technique Pietra Dura, low grade gold and silver. Pietra Dura is the art of carving stones, and in this case the decorative stone pieces s...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Lever-Back Earrings
Materials
Silver
$901 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Vintage 18 K Gold Ring with a Cabochon Cut green Stone, Made in 1972
Located in Stockholm, SE
This 18 karat gold ring is adorned with a cabochon-cut green stone. The shank of the ring is square shaped and on top of the shoulders of the ring golden bunches of grapes have been ...
Category
Vintage 1970s Swedish Cocktail Rings
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, 18k Gold
Swedish 18 k white gold ring with cut amethyst. Made 1993 by Sigurd Persson.
By Sigurd Persson
Located in Stockholm, SE
This white gold ring is adorned with a faceted, rectangular amethyst which is framed like a painting. The shank of the ring is quite wide to begin with and from the side you can see ...
Category
1990s Swedish Cocktail Rings
Materials
Amethyst, 18k Gold, White Gold
Swedish Silver Necklace Made Made 2001
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sterling silver necklace has a braided chain, with a pattern resembling a foxtail, and a large step cut smoky quarts pendant.
The necklace falls beautifully around the neck and...
Category
Early 2000s Swedish Choker Necklaces
Materials
Silver
$1,376 Sale Price
20% Off
Finnish Gold Brooch Made in 1957
Located in Stockholm, SE
This 14 karat gold and synthetic pink sapphire has a shape resembling a beautiful dragonfly. It is fastened easily with a C clasp.
The brooch has a charming and happy look making it...
Category
Vintage 1950s Brooches
Materials
Gold, 14k Gold
Silver Necklace Made by Rey Urban 1983, Stockholm, Sweden
By Rey Urban
Located in Stockholm, SE
This pendant is made out of sterling silver bars and a matte, natural shaped dun colored stone. With the pendant comes a 71 cm long flat herringbone silver chain.
The pendant is, wi...
Category
Vintage 1980s Swedish Chain Necklaces
Materials
Silver
$911 Sale Price
20% Off
Unique Ring Made in 1978 by Sigurd Persson
By Sigurd Persson
Located in Stockholm, SE
his sterling silver ring has gold on its top. This joyful creation looks like a piece of a puzzle.
The ring has an unique form and it radiates attitude. It is a perfect fit in both...
Category
Vintage 1970s Swedish Fashion Rings
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver and Amber Necklace Made Year 2006
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sterling silver necklace, called "Fearless", has a beautiful, rather large, drop shaped pendant made of sterling silver and amber.
A necklace like this can of course be worn at...
Category
Early 2000s Finnish Chain Necklaces
Materials
Amber, Sterling Silver
Gold Necklace with Mounted Amethysts by Einar Ailio in 1995
Located in Stockholm, SE
This necklace and pendant are made out of 14 karat gold and three amethysts. The three amethysts have a light purple color and they are surrounded by golden arches...
Category
1990s Finnish Chain Necklaces
Materials
Amethyst, 14k Gold
Sterling Silver and Malachite Necklace Made 1990
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sterling silver necklace has a venetian chain and a silver and malachite pendant. The malachite stone has a cabochon cut and it literally glows with its beautiful green color.
...
Category
1990s Swedish Pendant Necklaces
Materials
Malachite, Sterling Silver
Pair of Swedish Cufflinks Made by Wiwen Nilsson in 1973
By Wiwen Nilsson
Located in Stockholm, SE
These gilded sterling silver cufflinks are rectangular shaped. The surface is matte and adorned with a monogram in releif. The monogram resembles an "à la grecque" pattern, that allo...
Category
Vintage 1970s Swedish Cufflinks
Materials
Silver
Pair of Swedish Earrings Made by Sigurd Persson, Made 1951
By Sigurd Persson
Located in Stockholm, SE
These earrings are made out of 18 karat gold, green, red and black enamel and cultivated pearls.
These earrings resemble colourful sea mussels, and would be perfect for any formal o...
Category
Vintage 1950s Swedish Clip-on Earrings
Materials
18k Gold
Bracelet by Mona Fällberg, Sweden 2002
Located in Stockholm, SE
This sterling silver and synthetic diamond bangle is both solid and wide. It has a silky matt surface and a ribbon of 23 synthetic diamonds running across.
This bangle brings your t...
Category
Early 2000s Swedish Bangles
Materials
Silver
Bracelet, Bottega Veneta, Early 21st C.
By Bottega Veneta
Located in Stockholm, SE
This bold bracelet combines silver with sculpted acrylic in rich brown and tortoiseshell-like tones. The acrylic forms scrolling, ornamental panels, secured to the silver base by dom...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Bangles
Materials
Silver
Bracelet, Elis Kauppi 1965, Finland
By Elis Kauppi
Located in Stockholm, SE
This silver and citrine bangle has a very modern look. At the same time it testifies to the style and grace that applied when it came into life. In our opinion the bangle, with its c...
Category
Vintage 1960s Finnish Bangles
Materials
Citrine, Silver
$1,305 Sale Price
20% Off
Grand Tour Sculpture Fountain of the The Neapolitan Fisherman after the Antique
Located in Stockholm, SE
A rare 19th century Grand Tour bronze sculpture of "The Neapolitan Fisherman" with a beautiful weathered patina attributed to the Neapolitan foundry Fonderia Chiurazzi is a full-scal...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait Study of a Young Woman, Oil on paper, 19th Century
Located in Stockholm, SE
This is a sensitive small-scale study portrait of a young girl, executed in warm monochrome brown tones. Painted during the second half of the 19th century, oil on paper and mounted ...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
Portrait of a Girl in Blue Dress - 1920´s Pastel
Located in Stockholm, SE
An enchanting oval portrait capturing a young girl, curled up in an oversized Louis XIV armchair. She wears a deep blue dress, her dark hair neatly arranged and held in place by two ...
Category
1920s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Gibraltar, Landscape Painting, 19th Century Marine Oil Painting on Canvas
By Laurits Bernhard Holst
Located in Stockholm, SE
This atmospheric marine painting, Twilight in Gibraltar, is a characteristic work by the Danish artist Lauritz (Laurits) Bernhard Holst (1848–1934), whose oeuvre is closely associate...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Pointer dog - 19th Century Oil on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
Portrait of a Longhaired Pointer dog, also called German Longhaired Pointer or German Longhaired Vorsteh, monogrammed and dated “A.D. 1895”, oil on canvas mounted on cardboard, mount...
Category
1890s Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Twilight Seascape with Sailboat and Storm Clouds
Located in Stockholm, SE
This atmospheric seascape signed and dated by Carl Lindqvist (1856–1941) shows a wind-tossed coast under dramatic skies, where dark clouds part to reveal sun-tinted light on the hori...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Equestrian Artist Baptista Schreiber Graphite Drawing, Circa 1915
Located in Stockholm, SE
This impressionistic and atmospheric graphite drawing by Gösta von Hennigs (1866–1941) portrays the celebrated equestrian artist Baptista Schreiber within the charged setting in a ci...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Landscape with Cove and Fishermen at Work, Oil on Canvas, 1878
Located in Stockholm, SE
Coastal landscape with fishermen hanging their nets, signed and dated “Colin Hunter 1878”, oil on canvas.
This evocative coastal scene with a cloudy sky depicts fishermen at work alo...
Category
1870s English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ottoman Children Dancing, 19th Century Watercolor on Paper
Located in Stockholm, SE
Study of Two Dancing or Playing Children in Ottoman Costume
Watercolour on paper. Probably executed during the first half of the 19th century.
This del...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Diana The Huntress Plaster Sculpture, Art Deco, Circa 1920, Signed
Located in Stockholm, SE
Sculpture representing the goddess Diana by Danish sculptor Jens Jacob Bregno (1877–1946), executed in plaster around 1920. This is a highly unusual model by the artist, and possibly...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Højbro Plads Winter Scene, Oil on Canvas, Early 20th Century
Located in Stockholm, SE
View from Højbro Plads in Copenhagen on a winter day by Axel Möller (1862–1958), signed and dated “Axel Möller 26”, oil on canvas. The motif is taken from where Højbro Plads meets Højbro Bridge which connects with Slotsholmen Island over the Slotsholmen canal, the Nikolaj Kirke is rising in the background. In the foreground, two women wearing green skirts stand on the snow covered square. Several figures are crossing the bridge, and the church tower forms the central vertical element of the composition. The painting is presented in a contemporary gilded profiled wooden frame.
Axel Möller was a Danish painter born in 1862 and active well into the 20th century. His work concentrated on urban environments, everyday street scenes, and the seasonal character of Copenhagen. Möller’s paintings...
Category
1920s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Veduta Scene, 18th Century Oil on Panel, Signed, Framed
Located in Stockholm, SE
An Italian veduta scene by Marten J. Waefelaers (1748–1799), signed and dated “M.J. Waefelaers 1791” lower left, oil on panel. (The signature is a bit hidden behind the frame). The g...
Category
1790s Flemish School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Walking Tiger Bronze Sculpture, Dark Patinated, Signed
Located in Stockholm, SE
Sculpture of a walking tiger in dark patinated bronze by Johan Axel Wetterlund (1858-1927), signed J. A. Wetterlund, mounted on a black-painted wooden base. This finely modelled bro...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Nouveau Relief Sculpture, Plaster, Signed, 1896, Woman in Mussel
Located in Stockholm, SE
A wall-mounted Art Nouveau relief by the Swedish sculptor Johannes Collin, signed “JC 96”, represents one of his earliest known works. Executed in plaster, the oval composition features a stylistically mussel shaped base from which emerges the finely modelled face of a young woman with long flowing hair. Her eyes are closed, conveying a sense of calm introspection and timeless beauty. The softly curved forms and delicate modelling create a serene harmony between natural rhythm and sculptural precision. The work is mounted on a later black-painted wooden plaque (26 × 33 cm), while the sculpture itself measures 21 × 18.5 cm. It is an unusually early piece by the artist, displaying craftsmanship and sensitivity.
Born in Stockholm in 1873, Johannes Collin trained as a sculptor during the final years of the 19th century, a period marked by the transition from academic historicism to the organic, nature-inspired forms of Art Nouveau (Jugendstil). His early works, such as this 1896 relief, already reveal a refined awareness of contour, proportion, and the poetic interplay between human expression and natural form.
Collin studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna) in Stockholm, where he was influenced by sculptors such as John Börjeson and Christian Eriksson. Over the following decades, he developed a personal style that combined naturalistic modelling with decorative rhythm and symbolic depth. He participated in exhibitions at the Konstakademien in Stockholm, in shows organized by the Swedish Artists’ Association (Svenska konstnärernas förening), and at the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö (1914)—one of the era’s major showcases of Scandinavian art and design.
Throughout his career, Collin produced portraits, allegorical figures, and architectural sculpture in plaster, bronze, marble, and terracotta. His works are represented in several Swedish collections, including the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and the Göteborgs konstmuseum, as well as in regional museums and private collections.
About Art Nouveau / Jugend
Art Nouveau, known in Sweden and Germany as Jugendstil, was an international artistic movement (c. 1890–1910) that sought to unite the arts under the guiding principle of nature’s harmony. Characterized by flowing lines, floral motifs, and organic rhythms, it aimed to dissolve the boundaries between fine and decorative art, bringing art into everyday life. In sculpture, this often meant a focus on the human body, sensual form, and the beauty of natural curves.
Within this aesthetic, Collin’s relief of a woman’s face emerging from a mussel-shaped base carries both mythological and symbolic resonance. The motif recalls the classical image of Venus rising from the sea...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
White Garden Flowers in the Green, Impressionist Oil on Canvas, Framed
Located in Stockholm, SE
A nature flower study by Carl Luthander (1879-1967). Oil on canvas, signed “Luthander”. The fresh, direct rendition of the flowers suggests it was painted plein air, likely during th...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Neoclassical Scene - Psyche, Oil on Canvas
By Otto Bache
Located in Stockholm, SE
In this neoclassical oil on canvas signed and dated “Otto Bache 1864”, the artist depicts Psyche standing with her back turned to the viewer beside a red draped table. Her hair is arranged in a tight knot, secured with a hairpin adorned with two large pearls. She holds a light drapery that covers her legs, while the rest of her body remains nude. With her head turned toward the right, she gazes downward toward the table, where a blue gown or drapery lies, the garment she is about to put on.
Her softly illuminated profile emerges as she turns in the light falling from the upper left, creating a striking backlight that heightens the contrast along the contours of her body. On the richly red draped table before her rest her jewellery and, to her left, a large amphora-shaped jug and a tazza bowl. The light descending from above to the left defines the composition with sharp contrasts between brightness and shadow, revealing the delicate modelling of Psyche’s form and lending the scene a quiet sense of introspection and grace.
Exhibited: Winkel & Magnussen October 1915 no. 5, ill. p. 5.
Otto Bache was born in 1839 in Roskilde, Denmark, and died in 1927 in Copenhagen.
At the age of only eleven he was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where he studied drawing and painting under the supervision of artists such as Wilhelm Marstrand. His early training gave him a basis in the Danish “Golden Age” tradition of realism and naturalism, but he went on to travel and extend his horizons. In 1866 he received an Academy travel-scholarship and went to Paris, then Italy (1867–68).
The influence of Paris is often noted: his palette became richer, his handling freer, his light stronger, and his subjects broader. Later in his career, from around 1887, he held the post as professor and on various occasions director of the Royal Danish Academy.
Bache’s early work reflects his rigorous academic training: careful drawing, subdued palette and interest in genre scenes and rural life. After his travel in Paris and Italy he adopted a somewhat more robust handling of color and light, but still remained essentially realist and narrative in approach.
He painted portraits, animal and hunting subjects, genre scenes, and large history-paintings depicting key moments from Danish history.
In particular, during the 1880s and 1890s when he was commissioned to execute large history canvases for the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle and similar institutions, depicting events such as the exploits of Danish soldiers...
Category
1860s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Drawing of a Gypsy Woman on Paper, Signed, 19th Century
Located in Stockholm, SE
A graphite profile portrait drawing of a woman on paper by Johannes Collin (1873-1951), signed “Johannes Collin 98” and titled “Zigenerska”. This early and unusual work by Collin presents his interest in refined drawing and capturing character even at a modest scale. It dates from 1898, a formative moment for the artist when he was studying arts and stands out as a somewhat rare example of his graphic or drawing work rather than his better known small bronzes.
Johannes Collin was born in 1873 in Skåne, south Sweden.
After passing his matriculation at the Cathedral School in Lund in 1892, he studied at university in 1894–96 and then turned to art studies.
From 1899 to 1901 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, and from 1903 to 1905 he studied sculpture in Paris.
Collin settled in Lund, Skåne and pursued a career as sculptor and poet. He died in 1951 in Lund.
He was the son of a farmer and raised in the Skåne countryside. Early on he developed a sensitivity to form, figure, and expression, combining his sculptural ambitions with literary leanings (he later published a small volume of poetry).
Collin appears to have had an individualistic personality: he moved in student and artistic circles in Lund, but also kept a modest, sometimes even eccentric public persona. In the mid-1930s, he increasingly turned to poetry and pared back his three-dimensional work.
From his early years, he gradually developed into a sculptor working in bronze and patinated materials. Much of his work consists of small‐scale bronzes with an intensity of expression. One critic (in Kulturens yearbook) wrote of Collin that “the monumental is not in the work’s external dimensions but in the attitude … your small sculptures have an inner monumentality”.
Collin exhibited his works in various venues: for example he took part in the Lund Exhibition (“Lundautställningen”) in 1907.
Internationally, he showed works in Munich in 1909 and 1913, where his efforts were positively reviewed.
A noteworthy retrospective or exhibition was held at the museum Kulturen in Lund, when a donation of Collin’s sculptures...
Category
1890s Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of an Architect with his Tools and Drawings, Oil on Canvas, Sign. 1798
Located in Stockholm, SE
Portrait of an Architect at His Desk, 1798
Oil on canvas, relined. Signed “C A Lorentzen 1798.”
The composition depicts an architect seated at his desk, surrounded by drawings and pa...
Category
1790s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Mood in the Garden, Impressionist Oil on Canvas, 19th Century
Located in Stockholm, SE
The present painting, Autumn mood in the garden by the female artist Elisabeth Warling (1858–1915) is a fine example of her impressionistic works. Signed "Elisabeth Warling" and with...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Russian Princess Olga Meyendorff, born Gorchakov, 19th Century Portrait
Located in Stockholm, SE
Portrait of Princess Olga Gorchakov by female 19th century artist Elise Hügel.
An oval portrait of Princess Olga Gortschakoff (1838–1926), here pictured soon after her marriage to Baron Friedrich Adeldagus Felix von Meyendorff, becoming Baroness von Meyendorff, signed Elise Hügel and dated 1858. Executed in oil on canvas, the work shows a young Olga in her early 20´s...
Category
1850s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Southern Coast with Beach, Trees and Sailboat, Impressionistic Painting, 1920´s
Located in Stockholm, SE
A Southern Coastal Landscape by Charles Bisschops. This oil on canvas, signed L. Ch. Bisschops, depicts a southern coastal scene with a beach bordered by trees. Across the bay, mount...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th Century Portrait of Gustaf Wilhelm Palm in Pencil and Pastel
Located in Stockholm, SE
Portrait of Gustaf Wilhelm Palm (1810–1890) by Lorenz Frølich (1820-1908)
Signed with monogram and dated May 1849. Pencil and pastel on paper. 29.5 × 21 cm.
This portrait of the Swed...
Category
1840s Naturalistic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Carbon Pencil
