Signed lower left “Th. Wallner” for Thure Vilhelm Wallner.
Oil painting on canvas. 61.5 x 50.5 cm (roughly 24.2 x 20 in) nice gesso frame is 79 x 68 cm or say 31 x 27 in. Please study good resolution images for precise cosmetic condition. Weight of app. 4.3 kg is going to measure some 7 kg in volume packed forshipment.
Thure Vilhelm Wallner born August 15, 1888 in Salem's parish, died March 15, 1965 in Södertälje, was a Swedish painter and cartoonist. He was theson of the gardener Karl Wallner and his wife Emma and married the first timein 1925 with Edit Westerberg and the second time from 1952 with Thyra E Engström. During his early age, Wallner received private education in drawingand painting Artur Bianchini around 1910, he continued his studies at Althins Painting School in Stockholm. Wallner then suffered from poor health and wasthus is olated from intercourse with young children, to engage in copying hestudied natural and animal studies as found in various journals. When his artist dreams emerged, the subject choice was already given. His first knownwork dates from 1903, which is a still life painting with a mandolin and somesingle portraits are the only exceptions for a sixty-year long production ofnature and animal shots. He has portrayed Swedish wild life and nature from Sörmland and the Swedish mountain values as well as someforeign motives from trips to, among others, America 1927, Switzerland 1950, the Canary Islands 1958 and Italy 1961, but after his travels he consideredthat the best motives were on the Swedish foster earth. In younger years hecontacted Bruno Liljefors for advice and he initially tried to imitate Liljefors animal productions. His painting came with time to become very detailed with a pedantic accuracy to portray the motives as natural aspossible. His meticulous reproduction of the animals and their life in natureca used him to be hired by the magazine Svensk Jakt and Gyttorp's hunting tableas illustrator. He performed the title sheets for Outdoor America 1928 and 1929 as well as illustrations to Nils-Magnus Nilssons Mälarmark. For the Swedish school material publisher, he performed animal paintings intended to bereproduced and used for teaching purposes. He performed his paintings in oil,pastel, watercolor or paintings as well as illustrations in tusch. Separately,he exhibited at Hultberg's art store in Stockholm 1938 and 1943 and in Södertälje in 1959. Together with Torgny Dufwa, he exhibited in Södertälje in 1947 and 1952, as well as with Si Grönberger, Gunnar Notini and Torgny Dufwa in Södertälje in 1945. He participated in a number of joint exhibitions Other withthe Association Småland artists in Borås, Alingsås, Ulricehamn, Mjölby andVärnamo. Together with Gunnar Notini, Si Grönberger and Torgny Dufwa, he wasthe initiator of the formation of Södertälje Art Society. Wallner isrepresented at, among others, Södertälje New Town Hall and Enschede Museum in the Netherlands and with school plans at the County Museum of Western Norway, Malmö Museum and Vänersborg Museum.
USD
EUR
AUD
GBP
INR
CNY
