Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Fine Art Tuesday

 

Carl Gustaf Hellqvist was born in Sweden in 1851 and died in 1890.

1886 Hellqvist suffered from severe headaches and he stopped painting. He was admitted into a mental hospital in March of 1889 and died twenty months later at the age of 38.

Monk in Garden. Painted when he lived in Munich.
 


Several of Hellqvist's paintings has such excellent detail that snips of them are sold as reproductions





2 comments:

  1. Such amazing talent.

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  2. Amazing indeed. Looking closer at the last one someone once powerful is being mocked by jester, riding backwards on a nag and carrying a large wooden sword.

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