August Strindberg
ARTISTJohan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout his life, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and historical plays to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.
moreBiography adapted from Wikipedia: August Strindberg (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Other Swedish artists of the period:Anders Zorn 449Carl Larsson 214Ferdinand Boberg 179Karl Nordström 73Ernst Josephson 70Nils Kreuger 67Nils Dardel 61Jenny Nyström 61
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Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout his life, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and historical plays to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of August Strindberg's work on the site falls under Landscape (16), Abstract (1).
By movement, it's catalogued as Impressionism (9), Art Nouveau (6), Expressionism (1).
Culture: Swedish (17).
By orientation: 4 landscape, 13 portrait.
Dated work in this group ranges from 1879 to 1907.
Other Swedish artists of the period
Artists from the same country and generation, also in the archive:
- Anders Zorn — 449 artworks
- Carl Larsson — 214 artworks
- Ferdinand Boberg — 179 artworks
- Karl Nordström — 73 artworks
- Ernst Josephson — 70 artworks
- Nils Kreuger — 67 artworks
- Nils Dardel — 61 artworks
- Jenny Nyström — 61 artworks