Painting

Donor information is divergent, compare sources below: It may be for Carl Robert Ossian Qvist (1831-1905), a bookkeeper from Uddevalla. Unmarried, a member of the Ordense Society Gubbarne in Uddevalla. Additional material about the company can be found in individual archives, archive numbers, 273 SAFETY GUBBARNE. Robert Qvist was an attendant of Uddevalla museum and art interested. The donor can also be surveyor Nicolaus Donatus Qvist,Ramsvik Overgård, Askum sn., f. 1791 or 1793. Oldest data contained in a handwritten gift list for the year 1862: “Qvist, R, Landtgauge, an oil painting, which teaches belonged to the monastery in Dragsmark.” Gift books 1861-1870 1 Archaeological and Ethnographic collections U-a Museum D4A 1 From K. A Andersson’s catalog in 1916: "Tavlan teaches hava hanging in Dragsmark’s church. Known in 1862 by surveyor N. Qvist. Some art value has it next-of-the-art, but a cultural historical one. Value 50 kroner. Is painted probably in the 16th century. Doctor Karlin, an intendent at Lund’s Museum of Cultural History calls the board: “Old Age and Youth. 19 5/5 18.” The painting was exhibited at the Gothenburg Jubilee Exhibition 1923, kat. No. 452. See Bilagepärm UM915 for details of similar paintings in Sweden as a basis for further research on the origin of this image (September 2004/MJ). From the Handwritten Catalogue 1957-1958: Old board m. German Devis Warehouse dimensions: 71 x 85.5 cm, dimensions m. frame 84 x 98.5 cm; oil paint. on canvas in wooden frame and papiermaché. The frame bad. Lappdirectory: K 1 Literature: Kristiansson, Sten: From Uddevalla Museum. An old board. Glimpses from Uddevalla Museum. From articles introduced in Bohus-Posten 1940-1942. Clip screen in the library under Ncbk-Uddevalla. Aasma, Karin: Dragsmark and the churches of Bokenäs. Volume 218 of Sweden’s Churches, Art Historical Inventory. 1994, p. 40. Andersson, Christer. Dragsmarks Monastery and Dragsmarks and Bokenäs Churches or “Small textbook in the art of going to the source instead of in the trap.” (2006) Picture screen: Letter received on 25 February 2005 from Christer Andersson, Orust, with Corrections to Vol. 218 in the churches of Sweden. Christer Andersson, Tegneby, Orust. Research Engineer at the Onsala Space Observatory. Ordf. in Tegneby Hembygdsförening, 1984-1998. Special interests: medieval church history, Dragsmark’s monastery, Dragsmark’s and Bokenäs churches, baptismal finds, as well as skances and fortresses. Text at presentation on the museum website in February 2012: Taxes from the collections. What was made available to the museum 150 years ago? From the second half of the 16th century there is an oil painting, which teaches belonged to the monastery in Dragsmark. About the conditions of life, the German text is about. A translation may indicate: “My father, you who wandered the path of life, so tell me what I can expect?” “The happiness, which you wait, nothing else is, than suffering, sorrows and inconveniences,” the old replies. The frame is made in the 1700s of wood and gilded papier maché. 84 x 99 cm. The painting was shown at the Jubilee exhibition in Gothenburg in 1923.