![]() The last time Carl Larsson’s series of Singoalla illustrations was exhibited in total at the Gothenburg Museum of Art was in 1996. The viewer is lured into a suggestive pictorial world, rich in detail, ornament and symbols. These mystical images, charged with drama, exhibit a tone of darkness in striking contrast to the bright idyllic style one normally associates with Carl Larsson.ĭespite the fact that the pictures are more than a hundred years old they remain highly relevant to today’s society and of visual interest from a range of different perspectives. Rydberg’s story is set in the Middle Ages and relates the tale of the forbidden love between a knight, Erland Månesköld, and Singoalla, a chieftain’s daughter of an itinerant people from “Egypti land”. Known and loved artists of all time, created a series of illustrations to accompany Viktor Rydberg’s classic ‘Singoalla’. ![]() In 1894 Carl Larsson (1853-1919), one of Sweden’s best ![]()
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