A Home: Paintings from a Bygone Age - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863155499 ISBN 13: 9780863155499

Publisher: Floris Books, 2006

Synopsis

A Home was first published in Swedish in 1899 under the title Ett Hem. It was accompanied by a text by Carl Larsson which included his ideas on decoration, and a description of his family's life. However it was a German edition, produced in 1909 and entitled Das Haus in der Sonne (The House in the Sun), which became a bestseller - 40,000 copies sold in three months. This book is a revised version of the first English edition, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York in 1974 with text translated from Lennart Rudstrom's 1968 adaptation of Larsson's original words.

About this title

About the Author:

Carl Larsson (1853–1919) was born into a poor family in Stockholm, Sweden. He was accepted at the Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts at the age of thirteen and spent several years working as a newspaper and magazine illustrator. He moved to Paris, where, as a penniless artist, he met his wife Karin, also an artist. In 1888, they moved back to Sundborn in Sweden. Carl Larsson is best known for his lovely watercolour paintings of his home and family which were popularized through a series of books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Floris Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0863155499
• ISBN 13: 9780863155499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32