Johan Tiren
Johan Tirén (1853-1911) made himself known in the early 1880s as a good subject for an artist with a brush directed towards the northern part of our country. He had been to Stockholm and belonged to Edvard Perséus' circle of students there. He painted landscapes, northern motifs with mountains and pine forests and in between romantic moods by Lake Mälaren. In 1880 Tirén won the royal medal at the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts for the prize subject "Loki is imprisoned by the Aesir". The following year the artist sent a large canvas to the student exhibition, Jämtland's legend, a variation of the motif with Näcken and the fiddler. In Johan Tirén's representation, the fiddler is a young man in Jämtland costume who, with violin and bow in his hand, listens to Näcken's playing deep down in the foaming rapids. The model for the young man was Tirén's fellow student of the academy, Anders Zorn.
In the autumn of 1882, Johan Tirén received a scholarship that he used for travel, including with his good friend Bruno Liljefors, around Europe, but also for studies in Jämtland. Despite the long trips to Germany, France and Italy, Tirén always returned to the northern landscapes in his canvases. He also painted mountain landscapes abroad, Liljefors painted animals. In 1884, Tirén requested that the scholarship also apply to trips within the country. However, this application was rejected and with this news in his luggage, he returned home and settled with his new wife, the artist Gerda Tirén, in Oviken in Jämtland, amidst forests, lakes and mountains. Here the artist came to live more and more in the conditions of the Sami people and he took a clear stand for their cause in his art. One could say that Johan Tirén was a painting ethnologist, a storyteller and, figuratively speaking, a recorder of the daily life of the Sami people with all that it entailed in terms of struggle and hardship.
In the autumn of 1882, Johan Tirén received a scholarship that he used for travel, including with his good friend Bruno Liljefors, around Europe, but also for studies in Jämtland. Despite the long trips to Germany, France and Italy, Tirén always returned to the northern landscapes in his canvases. He also painted mountain landscapes abroad, Liljefors painted animals. In 1884, Tirén requested that the scholarship also apply to trips within the country. However, this application was rejected and with this news in his luggage, he returned home and settled with his new wife, the artist Gerda Tirén, in Oviken in Jämtland, amidst forests, lakes and mountains. Here the artist came to live more and more in the conditions of the Sami people and he took a clear stand for their cause in his art. One could say that Johan Tirén was a painting ethnologist, a storyteller and, figuratively speaking, a recorder of the daily life of the Sami people with all that it entailed in terms of struggle and hardship.
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