Nationalmuseum Jamtli, Östersund, presented an exhibition featuring artists’ depictions of Nordic nature from the 17th century onward. Through visual and applied arts you got a picture of how nature has been seen as a source of beauty, an economic resource, an object of research and a symbol of identity at different times through history.
The exhibition presented some 130 works: paintings, drawings, photographs and applied art, all drawn from Nationalmuseum’s collections. The artists represented included Anna Boberg, Otto Hesselbom, Pehr Hilleström, Elias Martin, Bruno Liljefors and Helmer Osslund, along with more recent names such as Frida Fjellman, Kerstin Hörnlund, Ingalena Klenell, Märta Mattsson and Per B Sundberg.
Allaert van Everdingen, Landscape with a Waterfall. Oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum. Photo: Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum.
David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, Hedvig Sofia, 1681-1708, Swedish princess and a Duchess Consort of Holstein-Gottorp. Oil on canvas. The Swedish National Portrait Gallery, Nationalmuseum. Photo: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum
Elias Martin, Aspa Bruk, 1790's. Oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum. Photo: Nationalmuseum.
Ferdinand von Wright, Pigeons. Oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum. Photo: Linn Ahlgren/Nationalmuseum
Bruno Liljefors, Hawk and Black-Game, 1884. Oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum. Photo: Nationalmuseum.
Helmer Osslund, Summer Evening at Kallsjön. Oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum. Photo: Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum
Anna Boberg, The Northern Lights. Study from North Norway. Oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum. Photo: Anna Danielsson/Nationalmuseum.
Otto Hesselbom, Our Country. Motif from Dalsland, 1902. Oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum. Photo: Nationalmuseum.
Olga Lanner, Flower Pot, 1916. Silver. Nationalmuseum. Photo_Viktor Fordell/Nationalmuseum
Bruno Liljefors, Havsörnbo, Sea Eagle's Nest, 1907. Oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum. Photo: Linn Ahlgren/Nationalmuseum.
