Seen in the Mirror, 1895.
Watercolour on paper. Gteborgs Konstmuseum, Gteborg.
Year | Life | Works (Selection) |
1853: | Carl Larsson is born in Stockholm on 28 May. |
1860: | Primary school enrollment. |
1867: | Following the advice of his teacher, he starts studying art at the preliminary class of the Royal Swedish Art Academy in Stockholm. |
1869: | Participates in a drawing class at the Academy. As a caricaturist he works for the humorous journal Kasper . |
1872: | Larsson meets Vilhelmina Holmgren. Participation in a course on studies from the nude at the Academy. | 1872; Female Nude with Grape. |
1873: | Larsson wins a prize at the Academy. | 1874; Moses is Abandoned by His Mother. 1875; Lady Playing the Lute. |
1876: | Larsson wins a Royal Medal for his previous works. Vilhelmina Holmgren dies during childbirth of their second child. |
1877: | Larsson undertakes his first journey to Paris, works a lot but without success. | 1877; Palmera, 1878; Landscape from Barbizon. |
1879-1880: | His first contact with fresco painting. | 1879; Ceiling Painting and Lunettes of Bolinder Palace. |
1880: | Larsson spends two years in Barbizon, but then moves to the artists colony in Grez-sur-Loing. Here he meets Karin Berg, who also studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. |
1881: | Collaboration with Strindberg for his work about Swedens cultural history. | 1881; Amorette is Watering Calla, 1881; Self-Portrait as Napoleon, 1881; Sculpture Garden, 1882; Forbidden Fruits. |
1883: | Carl Larsson and Karin Berg marry in Stockholm. Another short stay in France. | 1883; In the Kitchen Garden, 1883; The Old Man and the Nursery Garden. |
1884: | Birth of their oldest daughter Suzanne in Grez-sur-Loing. Purchase of The PondinGrez-sur-Loing by the French state. | 1884; Poppies, 1884; The Grape, 1884; Electricity. |
1885: | Trip to London; exhibits at the Salon , final return to Schweden, Larsson accepts a position as an art teacher in Gteborg. | 1885; Interior of the Frstenberg Gallery, 1885; Karin Larsson with Suzanne, 1885; Interior with a Lady Reading. |
1886: | Journey through Paris, Venice and Rome to Messina. | 1886; Lady Reading the Newspaper, 1886; Open-Air Painter. Winter-Motif from sgatan 145, Stockholm. |
1887: | Birth of his oldest son Ulf; participates in the Exposition Internationale by Georges Petit in Paris. | 1887; Alma, 1887; Grez-sur-Loing ( The Loing River ) . |
1888: | Birth of his son Pontus. Trip to Paris. Karins father donates Little Hyttens in Sundborn. | 1888; Profiles, 1888; Construction of the Eiffel Tower. |
1888: | He participates in a tender for the interior design of Stockholms National Museum. | 1889; Christmas Roses. |
1890: | Refusal of his proposals, re-tendering. |
1894: | Larsson receives commission to send in six cardboards for the interior design of the staircases upper part. | Portraits of his children: 1894; Lisbeth, 1894; Suzanne, 1894; Ulf and Pontus. |
1896: | Execution of the works. |
1897-1898: | Larsson executes the ceiling paintings of Stockholms Royal Swedish Opera. Participation in the General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm. | 1897; Portrait of Jenny Lind, 1898; Karin and Kersti, 1898; Lisbeth Angling. |
1899: | He publishes A Home including reproductions of some of his watercolours. | 1899; A Fairy Tale, Kersti and the Dream of a Meadow, 1900; Self-Portrait Before the Mirror. 1903; The Artists Father. |
1905: | Death of his son Ulf. Larsson receives commission to design a wall for the upper part of the National Museums hall. 1904; My Country House in Winter, | 1905; Harrowing, 1905; Portrait of Pastor Pettersson. |
1908-1909: | Works on his album On the Sunny Side , for which he creates 28 watercolours, which he shows at an exhibition in Munich. | 1907; Girl and Rocking Chair, 1908; Evening Light at the Piano, 1908; Self-Portrait. |
1911: | Submission and exhibition of his first sketches for Midvinterblot . | 1911; Karin Peeling Rhubarb, 1911; Self-Portrait. |
1915: | Tentative hanging of Midvinterblot in the National Museum. | 1912; Sun and Flowers, 1912; Letter-Writing. |
1916: | Refusal of purchasing Midvinterblot by the National Museum. | 1917; By the Cellar. |
1918: | Larsson writes his autobiography, which will only be published in 1931. | 1918; Portrait of the Organist Gustaf Hedstrm, 1918; Portrait Hans Svedberg, 1918; |