Bruno Liljefors and the Nature Photographers

The project includes a richly illustrated publication of about 150 pages linked to an exhibition intended to take place at Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, Stockholm during the period 2013-03-23-2013-08-25. The publication/exhibition catalog will contain texts written by Göran Söderlund (Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde) and Henrik Ekman, journalist and photographer. The starting point for the project is Bruno Liljefors as an animal and nature painter and author of The Kingdom of the Wild. In addition to a rich selection of Bruno Liljefors' paintings from the 1880s and 1890s and the time around the turn of the century, a commentary section is presented with current nature photographs taken by some of the country's leading nature photographers. To what extent and in what way has the artist Bruno Liljefors influenced our contemporary way of looking at nature, wildlife and birds? This investigative part of the project will be addressed by Henrik Ekman in the planned catalog. Göran Söderlund will write about Bruno Liljefors more generally and the view of nature he represented, a view of nature that permeates his paintings but also his photography. A selection of his own nature photographs, on loan from Uppsala Art Museum, will be included in the exhibition and also in the catalog.