Year

Life

Works (Selection)

1853:

Carl Larsson is born in Stockholm on 28 May.

1860:

Primary school enrollment.

1867:

Following the advice of his teacher, he starts studying art at the preliminary class of the Royal Swedish Art Academy in Stockholm.

1869:

Participates in a drawing class at the Academy. As a caricaturist he works for the humorous journal Kasper.

1872:

Larsson meets Vilhelmina Holmgren. Participation in a course on studies from the nude at the Academy.

1872; Female Nude with Grape.

1873:

Larsson wins a prize at the Academy.

1874; Moses is Abandoned by His Mother.

1875; Lady Playing the Lute.

1876:

Larsson wins a Royal Medal for his previous works.

Vilhelmina Holmgren dies during childbirth of their second child.

1877:

Larsson undertakes his first journey to Paris, works a lot but without success.

1877; Palmera,

1878; Landscape from Barbizon.

1879-1880:

His first contact with fresco painting.

1879; Ceiling Painting and Lunettes of Bolinder Palace.

1880:

Larsson spends two years in Barbizon, but then moves to the artists’ colony in Grez-sur-Loing. Here he meets Karin Bergöö, who also studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.

1881:

Collaboration with Strindberg for his work about Sweden’s cultural history.

1881; Amorette is Watering Calla,

1881; Self-Portrait as Napoleon,

1881; Sculpture Garden,

1882; Forbidden Fruits.

1883:

Carl Larsson and Karin Bergöö marry in Stockholm. Another short stay in France.

1883; In the Kitchen Garden,

1883; The Old Man and the Nursery Garden.

1884:

Birth of their oldest daughter Suzanne in Grez-sur-Loing. Purchase of The Pond in Grez-sur-Loing by the French state.

1884; Poppies,

1884; The Grape,

1884; Electricity.

1885:

Trip to London; exhibits at the Salon, final return to Schweden, Larsson accepts a position as an art teacher in Göteborg.

1885; Interior of the Fürstenberg Gallery,

1885; Karin Larsson with Suzanne,

1885; Interior with a Lady Reading.

1886:

Journey through Paris, Venice and Rome to Messina.

1886; Lady Reading the Newspaper,

1886; Open-Air Painter. Winter-Motif from Åsögatan 145, Stockholm.

1887:

Birth of his oldest son Ulf; participates in the Exposition Internationale by Georges Petit in Paris.

1887; Alma,

1887; Grez-sur-Loing (The Loing River).

1888:

Birth of his son Pontus. Trip to Paris.

Karin‘s father donates Little Hyttenäs in Sundborn.

1888; Profiles,

1888; Construction of the Eiffel Tower.

1888:

He participates in a tender for the interior design of Stockholm‘s National Museum.

1889; Christmas Roses.

1890:

Refusal of his proposals, re-tendering.

1894:

Larsson receives commission to send in six cardboards for the interior design of the staircase’s upper part.

Portraits of his children:

1894; Lisbeth,

1894; Suzanne,

1894; Ulf and Pontus.

1896:

Execution of the works.

1897-1898:

Larsson executes the ceiling paintings of Stockholm’s Royal Swedish Opera. Participation in the General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm.

1897; Portrait of Jenny Lind,

1898; Karin and Kersti,

1898; Lisbeth Angling.

1899:

He publishes A Home including reproductions of some of his watercolours.

1899; A Fairy Tale, Kersti and the Dream of a Meadow,

1900; Self-Portrait Before the Mirror.

1903; The Artist‘s Father.

1905:

Death of his son Ulf. Larsson receives commission to design a wall for the upper part of the National Museum’s hall. 1904; My Country House in Winter,

1905; Harrowing,

1905; Portrait of Pastor Pettersson.

1908-1909:

Works on his album , for which he creates 28 watercolours, which he shows at an exhibition in Munich.

1907; Girl and Rocking Chair,

1908; Evening Light at the Piano,

1908; Self-Portrait.

1911:

Submission and exhibition of his first sketches for Midvinterblot.

1911; Karin Peeling Rhubarb,

1911; Self-Portrait.

1915:

Tentative hanging of Midvinterblot in the National Museum.

1912; Sun and Flowers,

1912; Letter-Writing.

1916:

Refusal of purchasing Midvinterblot by the National Museum.

1917; By the Cellar.

1918:

Larsson writes his autobiography, which will only be published in 1931.

1918; Portrait of the Organist Gustaf Hedström,

1918; Portrait Hans Svedberg,

1918; Self-Portrait.

1919:

Larsson dies on 22 January.