Larsson, The Spring Album

Pictures, poems & thoughts - Spring feelings with Carl Larsson

48 pages fully illustrated in color. Hardcover. 15 x 19 cm.

• Stories and poems by well-known authors
• with pictures by the popular Swedish painter Carl Larsson
• an album full of spring happiness

When spring arrives in Sweden, when the ice melts in the archipelago and tender green sprouts in the bright birch forests, many people feel like embracing the whole world with their joy! "The Spring Album" radiates this special springtime happiness with paintings by Carl Larsson, arguably Sweden's most popular painter.

The book focuses on his cheerful spring motifs. He masterfully captures the light and atmosphere of rural Scandinavia in his vibrant paintings and illustrations. Carl Larsson's images depict house and garden scenes, as well as motifs of idyllic family life as it was about a hundred years ago. A nostalgic, warm-hearted atmosphere permeates the book, yet the fresh colors and cheerful text ensure that it doesn't feel "dusty." The children wear colorful traditional costumes, the whole family sits together in the garden, and the typical red wooden houses shine brightly between the green trees.

In keeping with these atmospheric, large-format illustrations, "The Spring Album" also features inspiring texts by well-known authors such as Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Heinrich Heine, and Selma Lagerlöf. "Ah, I know nothing better, I know no more beautiful joys than those first springs," writes Bettina von Arnim, for example.

"The Spring Album" also makes a wonderful gift. You can surprise your loved ones with it for Easter, Mother's Day, or their birthdays, for example.

Carl Larsson lived from 1853 to 1919 and was a Swedish painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. He created numerous drawings, watercolors, and paintings in the Swedish Art Nouveau style and is known for his cheerful and colorful house and garden scenes, as well as motifs of idyllic family life.

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