September 5 - January 31 2010 Carl Wilhelmson 5 September - 31 January 2010 Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde offers a fresh opportunity to get acquainted with Carl Wilhelmson, the great painter of Sweden's west coast. On 5 September, the museum presents a sweeping retrospective exhibition including some 80 of his works. It has been over 50 years since the last major Wilhelmson exhibition in Stockholm. Carl Wilhelmson (1866-1928) was a contemporary of Prince Eugen. At the turn of the last century, he was among the most acclaimed Swedish national romantic artists. He was primarily a depicter of everyday life, producing many paintings of the people and rugged landscapes of Bohuslän. He painted scenes of his home town of Fiskebäckskil, but also painted in Värmland, in Lövsta outside Uppsala, in Lapland and, during his travels, in Spain and England. At just 14, Wilhelmson began studying lithography in Göteborg. Several years later, he studied art at the school of the Crafts Association (Slöjdföreningen), later continuing at the Göteborg Museum School of Draughting and Painting (Valand), where one of his instructors was Carl Larsson. From 1890 to 1896, Wilhelmson studied painting in Paris and supported himself as a lithographer and commercial artist. He returned to Sweden in 1897 to begin working as a teacher and headmaster at Valand. Among his students were Ivar Arosenius, Carl Kylberg, Tora Vega Holmström, Maj Bring and Vera Nilsson. He was a popular and influential teacher, first in Göteborg and later at his own school of painting in Stockholm, where he moved in 1910. In 1925, he was appointed to a professorial chair at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Carl Wilhelmson worked as an artist for four decades. In around 1910, he adopted a modern approach to colour, applying clear brilliant paints to the canvas with a characteristically patchy application technique. As a painter of monumental works, he carried out several important public commissions, including permanent oil paintings at the Göteborg City Library and the Stockholm Central Post Office Building. In conjunction with the show, a book, Carl Wilhelmson, will be published in cooperation with Arena/Åmells Artbooks. It includes writing by Björn Fredlund, Per Hedström, Göran Söderlund and Thomas Lagerman on various aspects of Wilhelmson's versatile artistic career. After closing at Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, the show will move to Bohusläns Museum in Uddevalla.