Nordic Summer Evening by Richard Bergh

Finally - our first episode is out! We talk about the famous oil painting ”Nordic summer evening" (1899-1900) by the Swedish artist Richard Bergh. It is one of the most well-known Swedish works of art in the world, not least because of ”The Northern Light” exhibition that toured throughout North America in the 1980’s. 

This painting is iconic in Scandinavia and as a work from the era of National Romanticism it became symbolic for Sweden. But how Swedish is the Northern light and the style of the painting? How come the woman in the painting posed in Assisi in Italy, and the man in the archipelago of Stockholm? 

We also talk about the depicted couple in the painting: Karin Pyk who was an internationally known singer and the artist and prince Eugen of Sweden. We will tell you why the woman in the painting felt she had to leave the country when the painting was first exhibited in Stockholm in 1901. 

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