Torsten Gunnarsson Bücher

First Edition, English, Fine Dust Jacket In Protective Cover, Bound in publisher's original green cloth with cover and spine stamped in grey. The product of a spectacular exhibit that travelled from the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki to the National Museum in Stockholm, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minneapolis and the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. The definitive study with a complete illustrated catalogue, artist's biographies and a bibliography. Oblong Quarto, A Collaboration On A Mutual Exhibition Between Five Galleries In Scandinavia And The USA

In this richly illustrated book, Torsten Gunnarsson provides for the first time a comprehensive study of landscape painting in Scandinavia during its vital period of development in the nineteenth century. Gunnarsson show how, as Scandinavia searched for a national identity, the magnificent wildernessand the paintings it inspired-- became a symbol of Nordic strength and vigor.