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.
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Monk in Garden. Painted when he lived in Munich. |
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Several of Hellqvist's paintings has such excellent detail that snips of them are sold as reproductions |
Such amazing talent.
ReplyDeleteAmazing 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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