#hugo simberg

[banefolk]

“The Garden of Death” by Finnish painter Hugo Simberg, 1896.

[ketunhanska]

The Garden of Death, after Hugo Simberg

little homage to Simberg with Emmrich, Manfred and my Ingellvar :3 i started out intending to make this a stylistic pastiche as well but it did NOT work out., however im very happy with how it ended up looking like in my style! :)

[random-brushstrokes]

Hugo Simberg - Woman Thinking (1897)

[thunderstruck9]

Hugo Simberg (Finnish, 1873-1917), Piru padan ääressä [The Devil with the Pot], 1897. Gouache on paper, 14.7 x 15.7 cm.

[psikonauti]

Hugo Simberg (Finnish,1873-1917) 

Mountain Stream in Caucasia, 1899

Oil on canvas

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[artpollsblog]

Wounded Angel 1903 oil on canvas by Hugo Simberg

Description: painting showing two boys carrying an angel on an improvised litter. The angel is dressed in white, with white wings with two red scratches visable on one. The angels hair is long and blond, and they have a bandage wrapped around their eyes. Both hands hold onto the litter, but they also hold some snowdrops in one hand. One boy is looking at the viewer with an unhappy expression. They are walking on a brown road beside brown fields with some white flowers scattered on them. There s a bush and a stream running into an lake in the background. In the far background the ground rises out of the lake and two chimneys are visable in a notch.

Propaganda: To quote wikipedia: "The procession passes through a recognisable landscape, that of Eläintarha, Helsinki, with Töölönlahti Bay in the background.[6]" First of all I love when a place is depicted in a way that it is very regonicable for people familar with it, this realness of space gives such personal context. But to quote further "In Hugo Simberg's time, the park was a popular spot for leisure-time activities among the working classes. At the time, many charity institutions were located in Eläintarha park; in The Wounded Angel, the healthy boys are carrying the injured girl towards the Blind Girls' School and the Home for Cripples [sic]." I think both the disability and the working class aspect are very interesting - like look at the boys clothes (the boots of one of them and the ill fitting suit of the other) I do not know what could hurt an angel, but two very ordinary children, are taking care of them, and that touches me.

Propaganda 2: The art is referenced in the music video for "Amaranth" by Nightwish, from 2007. Nightwish is a finnish band (link to the music video here: Warning for flashing lights and quick cuts!)

The wounded angel 1903 by Hugo Simberg. Oil on canvas. The art is 127 cm × 154 cm (50 in × 61 in). The art is at the Finnish National Gallery (link to the art here). This version was accessed though Wikipedia Commons (link here).

The Garden of Death 1896 by Hugo Simberg

Description: A mostly yellow painting shows three skeletons, clad in black robes, tending to a garden. The skeleton closest to the viewer is watering the plants; the skeleton in the middle of the painting hugs a flower to its chest; the last skeleton is turned away from the viewer.

Propaganda: I love this painting. It's one of my favourite art pieces ever, and I adore it for much the same reason I love the Deaths from Discworld and Sandman. The Garden of Death personifies death not as something scary, but as gentle, peaceful, nurturing.

Propaganda 2: what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man? - Reaper Man, Discworld, by Terry Prattchet.

Propaganda 3: It look so incredible tender and warm, with the golden light that is most of the art (beside the white bones and black robes), I specially love the skeleton holding (hugging!) the blue flower. There is also a fresco version in the Tampere Cathedral, which is a less bright golden color and more muted with more contrast with the green grass in the background.

The Garden of Death 1896 by Hugo Simberg. Watercolor and gouache. The art is 16 cm × 17 cm (6.3 in × 6.7 in). The art is at the Finnish National Gallery (link to the art here). This version was accessed through Wikipedia Commons (link here).

[realmoftheacornking]

Portrait of the Artist Hugo Simberg (Finnish, 1873-1917), In Contemplation.

Circa 1900.

[cosmonautroger]

Hugo Simberg, 1985

[leatherandmossprints]

‘The Wounded Angel’ by Hugo Simberg, c. 1903.

[spirit-of-art]

Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death (Kuoleman puutarha), 1896

[random-brushstrokes]

Hugo Simberg - Resting Model (1904)

[thunderstruck9]

Hugo Simberg (Finnish, 1873-1917), Seascape in Moonlight, 1900. Oil on board, 34.5 x 48 cm.

[psikonauti]

Hugo Simberg (Finnish,1873-1917)

Autumn II, 1895

Watercolor

[moonofmiranda]

“The Wounded Angel” by Hugo Simberg

Finnish, 1903

[granstromjulius]

Hugo Simberg