Axel Fridell - Interior With Napoleon [1925]

Axel Fridell - Interior With Napoleon [1925], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Axel Fridell (Falun, 1894 - Stockholm, 1935) was a Swedish graphic artist and painter. In addition to graphics, he painted in oil, including self-portraits, interiors with figures and landscape motifs from the Stockholm area or Falun, often light and fluffy in nature and with a light and bright colouring. When Fridell died in 1935, just 40 years old, he had in almost two decades, managed to reach the artistic heights that it has taken such as Anders Zorn an entire lifetime to achieve. The cause of death was disseminated lung cancer. He died at St. Erik’s Eye Hospital on Sunday afternoon of May 26, 1935.

[Oil on wood, 45.5 x 55 cm]