#otto hesselbom

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Otto Hesselbom - View over Lake Aerran (1900)

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'Night Saturday' by Otto Hesselbom, (1848 - 1913)

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Grief in art

Grief is an interesting subject for depiction, because it isn't ever really just one feeling. It's a cluster of feelings, an array of very different, sometimes almost contradictory emotional states, which collectively we understand as expressions of that one underlying condition, which is grieving.

So how do you show that? How do you take that and make it visible to an audience? Many, many artists have tried, and their attempts are varied, fascinating, and very occasionally heartbreaking.

Let's take a little non-comprehensive walking tour of grief in art history, from the 1400s to the 2020s, from the religious to the cartoony, and get in our feelings a bit.

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Otto Hesselbom, Christmas Eve at the Grave, 1896

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The Mill Dam -   Otto Hesselbom

Swedish, 1840-1913

Oil on canvas , 24.5 x 39 cm.

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Otto Hesselbom

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Mountain Dreams, At the Cemetery // Fiddlehead, USMA // Otto Hesselbom, Christmas Eve at the Grave // Laura Gilpin, I Rarely Dream of Orpheus // Sergej Andrijaka, New Year’s Night 1984 // Big World, Christmas Eve

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Johan Otto Hesselbom (1848-1913) - Allé i höstfäger

Oil on canvas. Painted in 1889.

41.3 x 28.75 inches, 105 x 73 cm. Estimate: SEK 30,000-40,000.

Sold Uppsala Auktions, Uppsala, Sweden, 7 Dec 2022 for SEK 68,000 + B.P.

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Over forest and lake

Otto Hesselbom（Swedish, 1848–1913）

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Christmas Eve at the Grave, Otto Hesselbom (1896)

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Otto Hesselbom - Christmas Eve at the Grave (1896)

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Otto Hesselbom (Swedish, 1848 - 1913) - Sunset in the Forest

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Christmas Eve at the Grave, 1896 by Otto Hesselbom (Swedish 1848-1913)

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Johan Otto Hesselbom (13 July 1848 – 20 June 1913)

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Christmas Eve at the Grave (1896) by Otto Hesselbom ❅ New Year’s Night (1984) by Sergei Andriyaka

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