Poster, Isaac Grünewald, The Crane

Dimensions 30 x 40 cm

Isaac Grünewald, The Crane, 1915.

The encounter with modern art in Paris was a turning point for Isaac Grünewald and his young Swedish painting friends, among them Sigrid Hjertén. In the early 20th century, they studied with Henri Matisse and encountered a new language. Grünewald wrote about his impressions: "Suddenly I stood in front of a wall that sang, no, roared with color and radiated with light ... All the rules I had previously learned and used were abolished." Returning to Stockholm a couple of years later, Grünewald became a spokesman for the young art in Sweden that asserted the artist's right to free color, form and expression from old traditions. Isaac Grünewald and Sigrid Hjertén married in 1911 and eventually acquired a studio in one of the houses at Slussen in Stockholm. From up there, they depicted the incipient metropolitan pulse of modern Stockholm life, the cranes of Stadsgården and the noise of Slussen's traffic - all painted in the bright colors of the modern era from a breathtaking bird's eye view. A new city, a new era is emerging.

Item no.: MOM119