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Karl Isakson

15.5 2004 – 29.8 2004

Stockholm

“Isakson’s art is solitary, lucid, and necessary: it neither demands that we imbue it with meaning, nor does it refuse to imbue it with its own meaning, it simply takes and it gives, and is refreshing while it is deep and carried forth by passion”.

This beautiful and poignant description of Karl Isakson (1878-1922) was written by the art critic and poet Gunnar Ekelöf. The Moderna Museet summer exhibition will be the first of Karl Isakson in forty years, and it will be an exhibition of paintings by a unique Swedish painter – but also a journey to the roots of modernism, to delicate landscapes, austere still-lifes and to the psyche of an extremely radical artist.

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Karl Isakson in his own time

Text by Ylva Hillström och Annika Gunnarsson

Karl Isakson was never really appreciated in Sweden during his lifetime. In Denmark, however, he was …

The Iconography of Karl Isakson

The imagery of Karl Isakson is cyclical. He painted variations on a few motifs: portraits, landscapes, models, still lifes and subjects from Norse …