Floral Fête
Floral Fête
Artist: Hans Ryggen (1894-1956)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 17” x 17.5”
This painting is a vivid, expressionist still life depicting a bouquet of flowers in a vase, rendered in a loose, painterly style. A yellow vase filled with bright pink and red flowers sits on a table. The flowers are broad-petaled and abstracted, with yellow centers and loosely defined leaves in various shades of green. The overall composition is simple, focusing on the vibrancy of the floral arrangement. The artist uses bold, gestural brushstrokes and thick applications of color, typical of the modernist style or expressionism. There's a charming rawness in the way the forms are suggested rather than outlined—edges blur, colors overlap, and background elements are handled abstractly.
About the Artist: Hans Ryggen was a Norwegian artist who lived in Örlandet. He is known for Expressive, high color rural scene paintings, figure, genre and landscape. He was notably married to Hannah Ryggen, one of the most important Scandinavian artists during their lifetime.
Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970) was a Swedish-Norwegian modern artist who began her career as a painter before switching to creating political art in the form of monumental tapestries. “Combining the decorative and the political, Ryggen was ahead of her time with her turn to “political weaving.” She was also a feminist with strong communist sympathies involved in the international workers’ movement. Her dramatic, beautiful tapestries were shown at both the Paris and Brussels World’s Fairs, but she was largely forgotten by the international art world in the decades after her death. In recent years, however, as interest in both fiber arts and pioneering women artists has grown, Ryggen’s work has returned to the public eye, with major international exhibitions and fresh attention from curators, collectors, and critics.” - Marit Paasche, “Threads of Defiance”
Hannah about Hans, “Örlandet is, I daresay a big word, one of the wonders: barest painting country in the world. The climate and thus the colors change from minute to minute, everything is life and movement. Hans was born there and even when he was the oldest son on a farm, he was aware since childhood that he wanted to be a painter. He loved the colors above all, the brush was like a stroke for the fiddler. As the great person he was, he wanted to be self-sufficient in everything and worked on many things. He thought it was funny to invent things, especially to help me. How could I weave without the magnificent loom that he found and carved himself? He built up the old house that was a «rønna» so it became cozy and warm. But of all a thousand things, grinding was his life. It was the last thing he did on the last night he lived.” - Hannah Ryggen
This piece is in very good condition, consistent with its vintage age, with no obvious signs of wear.
All artwork is sold as found, and we always carefully photograph and highlight any notable signs of age.
Floral Fête
Artist: Hans Ryggen (1894-1956)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 17” x 17.5”
This painting is a vivid, expressionist still life depicting a bouquet of flowers in a vase, rendered in a loose, painterly style. A yellow vase filled with bright pink and red flowers sits on a table. The flowers are broad-petaled and abstracted, with yellow centers and loosely defined leaves in various shades of green. The overall composition is simple, focusing on the vibrancy of the floral arrangement. The artist uses bold, gestural brushstrokes and thick applications of color, typical of the modernist style or expressionism. There's a charming rawness in the way the forms are suggested rather than outlined—edges blur, colors overlap, and background elements are handled abstractly.
About the Artist: Hans Ryggen was a Norwegian artist who lived in Örlandet. He is known for Expressive, high color rural scene paintings, figure, genre and landscape. He was notably married to Hannah Ryggen, one of the most important Scandinavian artists during their lifetime.
Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970) was a Swedish-Norwegian modern artist who began her career as a painter before switching to creating political art in the form of monumental tapestries. “Combining the decorative and the political, Ryggen was ahead of her time with her turn to “political weaving.” She was also a feminist with strong communist sympathies involved in the international workers’ movement. Her dramatic, beautiful tapestries were shown at both the Paris and Brussels World’s Fairs, but she was largely forgotten by the international art world in the decades after her death. In recent years, however, as interest in both fiber arts and pioneering women artists has grown, Ryggen’s work has returned to the public eye, with major international exhibitions and fresh attention from curators, collectors, and critics.” - Marit Paasche, “Threads of Defiance”
Hannah about Hans, “Örlandet is, I daresay a big word, one of the wonders: barest painting country in the world. The climate and thus the colors change from minute to minute, everything is life and movement. Hans was born there and even when he was the oldest son on a farm, he was aware since childhood that he wanted to be a painter. He loved the colors above all, the brush was like a stroke for the fiddler. As the great person he was, he wanted to be self-sufficient in everything and worked on many things. He thought it was funny to invent things, especially to help me. How could I weave without the magnificent loom that he found and carved himself? He built up the old house that was a «rønna» so it became cozy and warm. But of all a thousand things, grinding was his life. It was the last thing he did on the last night he lived.” - Hannah Ryggen
This piece is in very good condition, consistent with its vintage age, with no obvious signs of wear.
All artwork is sold as found, and we always carefully photograph and highlight any notable signs of age.
Floral Fête
Artist: Hans Ryggen (1894-1956)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 17” x 17.5”
This painting is a vivid, expressionist still life depicting a bouquet of flowers in a vase, rendered in a loose, painterly style. A yellow vase filled with bright pink and red flowers sits on a table. The flowers are broad-petaled and abstracted, with yellow centers and loosely defined leaves in various shades of green. The overall composition is simple, focusing on the vibrancy of the floral arrangement. The artist uses bold, gestural brushstrokes and thick applications of color, typical of the modernist style or expressionism. There's a charming rawness in the way the forms are suggested rather than outlined—edges blur, colors overlap, and background elements are handled abstractly.
About the Artist: Hans Ryggen was a Norwegian artist who lived in Örlandet. He is known for Expressive, high color rural scene paintings, figure, genre and landscape. He was notably married to Hannah Ryggen, one of the most important Scandinavian artists during their lifetime.
Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970) was a Swedish-Norwegian modern artist who began her career as a painter before switching to creating political art in the form of monumental tapestries. “Combining the decorative and the political, Ryggen was ahead of her time with her turn to “political weaving.” She was also a feminist with strong communist sympathies involved in the international workers’ movement. Her dramatic, beautiful tapestries were shown at both the Paris and Brussels World’s Fairs, but she was largely forgotten by the international art world in the decades after her death. In recent years, however, as interest in both fiber arts and pioneering women artists has grown, Ryggen’s work has returned to the public eye, with major international exhibitions and fresh attention from curators, collectors, and critics.” - Marit Paasche, “Threads of Defiance”
Hannah about Hans, “Örlandet is, I daresay a big word, one of the wonders: barest painting country in the world. The climate and thus the colors change from minute to minute, everything is life and movement. Hans was born there and even when he was the oldest son on a farm, he was aware since childhood that he wanted to be a painter. He loved the colors above all, the brush was like a stroke for the fiddler. As the great person he was, he wanted to be self-sufficient in everything and worked on many things. He thought it was funny to invent things, especially to help me. How could I weave without the magnificent loom that he found and carved himself? He built up the old house that was a «rønna» so it became cozy and warm. But of all a thousand things, grinding was his life. It was the last thing he did on the last night he lived.” - Hannah Ryggen
This piece is in very good condition, consistent with its vintage age, with no obvious signs of wear.
All artwork is sold as found, and we always carefully photograph and highlight any notable signs of age.