Painting

In 1910 Carl Wilhelmson, along with the artist, illustrator and former pupil Yngve Berg, travelled to Spain. There they met a different light as well as a more colorful and contrasting population. The thorn scene from Ávila has Wilhelmson painted with so-called Weimar colours, resulting in a drier expression. The technique, not letting the paint completely cover the canvas, he makes use of this motif is a slight dallering expression. Art historian Osvald Sirén stated in a writing in 1905 that Carl Wilhelmson is neither a landscape painter nor a portrait painter ex professo, he is a figure artist. This opinion meant that he was an artist who dared to deal with larger figure compositions. We see among others examples of this painting. Literature: Spanish, Yngve Berg, Stockholm, Bonniers, 1915, 131 p. 23x16.5 cm, illustrated by the author. Carl Wilhelmson, Axel L. Romdahl, Sweden’s General Association of Arts XLVII, Stockholm 1938 Carl Wilhelmson. Arena/Åmells artbooks in collaboration with Prince Eugens Waldemarsudde Exhibition catalog 2009. From Nationalencyclopedia, NE.se: à Ur vila Ávila [a 'bila], capital of the province of the same name, Castilla y León in central Spain; 50.200 Inv. (2002). A., located v. of Madrid in the Spanish High Plain, is a historic city with preserved medieval and episcopal seats since the 300th century. The city was founded by the Carthaginians and surrounded by a ring wall from the late 1000s with about 90 towers, one of which forms an apse to the medieval cathedral of the city. In à Ã, the Holy Teresa (Teresa of Ávila) was born.