Frida Kahlo to José Bartoli | Love letter, 1946

"My Bartoli-Jose-Guiseppe-my red one,

I don’t know how to write love letters.

But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you.

Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty.

I would like to give you the prettiest colors, I want to kiss you…

[I want] our dream worlds to be one.

I would like to see from your eyes, hear from your ears, feel with your skin, kiss with your mouth. In order to see you from below [I would like] to be the shadow that is born from the soles of your feet and that lengthens along the ground upon which you walk….

Frida Kahlo | Surrealist painter

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)🎨 was an Mexican painter who produced mostly small, highly personal self-portraits using elements of fantasy and a style inspired by native popular art.

Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, Mexico, near Mexico City.

While a student at Mexico City's National Preparatory School in 1925, she sustained severe injuries in a bus accident. During her recuperation, Kahlo taught herself to paint.

After three years she took some of her first paintings to the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera🎨, who encouraged her to continue her work.

Jacek Malczewski | Symbolist painter

Jacek Malczewski (15 July 1854 - 8 October 1929) is one of the most revered painters of Poland🎨, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following the century of Partitions.

He is regarded as the father of Polish Symbolism🎨.

In his creative output, Malczewski combined the predominant style of his times, with historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the Romantic ideals of independence, Christian and Greek traditions, folk mythology, as well as his love of the natural environment.

Malczewski was born in Radom, part of Congress Poland controlled then by the Russian Empire.

Swedish Artists | Sitemap

Swedish art refers to the visual arts produced in Sweden or by Swedish artists.

Sweden has existed as country for over 1,000 years, and for times before this, as well as many subsequent periods, Swedish art is usually considered as part of the wider Nordic art of Scandinavia.

It has, especially since about 1100, been strongly influenced by wider trends in European art.

After World War II, the influence of the United States strengthened substantially. Due to generous art subsidies, contemporary Swedish art has a big production per capita.

Anders Zorn | Waking up, 1898 Watercolor on paper

Hugo Simberg | Symbolist painter

Hugo Simberg - Autoritratto, 1907

Hugo Gerhard Simberg (1873-1917) was a Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist.

Life and career

Simberg was born at Hamina (original Swedish Fredrikshamn), the son of Colonel Nicolai Simberg and Ebba Matilda Simberg (born Widenius).

In 1891, at the age of 18, he enrolled at the Drawing School of the Viipuri Friends of Art, and he also studied at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Association (fi) from 1893-1895, but in 1895 he decided to become the private pupil of Akseli Gallen-Kallela at his wilderness studio Kalela in Ruovesi.

He studied under Gallen-Kallela for three periods between 1895-1897.