Winter wonderland
Here are some scenes in paintings, photographs, drawings and more of how people across Europe and the world celebrate and enjoy life when the weather gets colder.
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Een rivier met besneeuwde oevers
Carl and Karin Larsson combined new design with old traditions. Practicality dictated their interior design, but it was equally important that furniture and objects form an attractive harmony. This ideal was also propagated by others, including Ellen Key,…
Characters sliding on sleds in pairs on a snowy place with two buildings and mountains in the background. Other characters looking at the scene.
The winter of 1892 was exceptionally severe. From the studio of his friend Witsen, Breitner could see the snow-covered Oosterpark (then under construction), located in a new district of Amsterdam. Typical tall, late 19th-century houses are visible on the …
This painting shows a typically Dutch phenomenon: having fun on the ice. People are skating, sledging and playing a game called ‘kolf’, a sort of ice hockey. On the left, a group of people have fallen through the ice, but help is already on the way. And j…
Sneeuwlandschap met op de voorgrond Nichiren, grondlegger van de boeddhistische Lotus sekte, in rood gewaad, een besneeuwde helling beklimmend; onderaan de berg een dorpje aan zee; bij een grijze lucht met dwarrelende sneeuwvlokken.
People glide over the ice of a frozen waterway. They are sledging and playing an old game called ‘kolf’. The ice seems to stretch out endlessly into the distance. This sense of depth is reinforced by the bare silhouette of the tree in the foreground. Chri…
As in his painting of the Morning Ride on the Beach (Gallery 1.18), Mauve shows the riders from behind. They are trotting away from the viewer in that silent wood. In the watercolour, the bare branches contrast sharply with the misty background, lit by an…
Sleigh-loads of snow are being tipped over the Blasieholmen quayside. In the background looms southern Stockholm. Alfred Bergström captures the effects of light on the snowy urban scene. In the foreground, the colours of the drifts range from dazzling hig…
Sneeuwlandschap; man op vlot in rivier tijdens sneeuwval; linksboven een gedicht.
Замръзналият плаж. Зад двете мъжки фигури - обледеният централен мост.
Roeiboot op de rivier tijdens een nachtelijke sneeuwbui. De roeier vaart een passagier naar het dorpje Ushibori aan overkant van de rivier. Langs de oever besneeuwde huizen met verlichte vensters, omringd door bomen.
Lettering: Rough play. "The playful children just let loose from school". E. Girardet.
Carl Larsson’s monumental painting Open-Air Painter has been seen as a manifesto for Nordic outdoor realism, which came into style in the 1880s. In addition to being a comment on the new practice of painting outdoors, it illustrates the repercussions this…