Elias Erdtman, The River Silverån in Hässleby, Sweden, Plein air
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Dimensions: Height 19.5 cm (8 inches) x Width 28 cm (12 inches)
A fine small river landscape "Silverån" painted "en plein air" by Elias Erdtman, (1862-1945). Signed E. Erdtman1883. Oil on canvas mounted on board.
This is a rare work from his early period when he was only 21 years old and still studying in Stockholm. He had not yet been abroad. The painting depicts the river Silverån in Hässleby, Småland, in the southeast of Sweden.
Elias Henrik Erdtman was a Swedish artist and in his early years as a young man, he was traveling around Småland with the artist Johan Krouthén dreaming about becoming an artist and did some painting. Our painting, dated 1883, is from his last year of studies at the Technical School in Stockholm, which he had joined in 1881, and one can already see his talent. In 1884 he went to Düsseldorf and stayed there until 1885 with a shorter stay, in between, in Belgium. Then in 1886, he traveled to Paris and Grez-sur-Loing together with his artist friends Ernst Josephson and Carl Larsson.
He participated in most of the Artists' Association exhibitions from 1898 and was on the board of the Artists' Association 1915–20. Erdtman received the Mention honorable award at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900. He held a number of solo exhibitions in Stockholm and other Swedish citys during the the early 20th century. He worked mostly as a landscape painter and mainly found motifs for his paintings in the Swedish countryside. Erdtman is represented at, among others, Kalmar Art Museum, Norrköping Art Museum and the National Museum in Stockholm.
Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 15 x 24 cm. Signed E. Erdtman and dated 1883.