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Eugène Jansson
Eugène Jansson

Eugène Jansson

Swedish, 1862-1915
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Eugène Fredrik Jansson was a Swedish painter known for his night-time land- and cityscapes dominated by shades of blue. Towards the end of his life, from about 1904, he mainly painted male nudes. The earlier of these phases has caused him to sometimes be referred to as blåmålaren, "the blue-painter".

Jansson's parents belonged to a social stratum straddling the working and the lower middle class, but they were interested in art and music and ambitious for their two sons, Eugène and his younger brother Adrian. Eugène went to the German School in Stockholm and took piano lessons. An attack of scarlet fever at the age of fourteen caused him health issues from which he suffered for the rest of his life, including bad eyesight and hearing and chronic kidney problems.

Jansson enrolled in the Tekniska skolan (now Konstfack) and studied with Edvard Perséus, a painter who ran a private art school in Stockholm. He was accepted into the Antique school of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1881, but did not have the means to follow most of his contemporaries to Paris for further studies. Remaining in Stockholm, which supplied him most of his motifs, his first trip outside the Nordic countries would come in 1900, when he had already become well-established as a painter and his economic situation had started to improve. In his youth, he assisted Perséus in his portrait production and painted some still lifes, but he eventually found his favourite motifs in the city surrounding him.

He lived his whole life together with his mother and brother at Södermalm, the southern part of Stockholm.

Art historians and critics have long avoided the issue of any possible homoerotic tendencies in this later phase of his art, but later studies (see Brummer 1999) have established that Jansson was in all probability homosexual and appears to have had a relationship with at least one of his models. His brother, Adrian Jansson, who was himself homosexual and survived Eugène by many years, burnt all his letters and many other papers, possibly to avoid scandal (homosexuality was illegal in Sweden until 1944).

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The City at Sunset

The City at Sunset (1897)

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Landscape
Evening Mood-Lidingö

Evening Mood-Lidingö (1900)

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Landscape
Acrobats

Acrobats (1912)

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Figurative
Circus Scene

Circus Scene (1913-1914)

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Figurative
Hepatica

Hepatica (1890-1891)

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Figurative
Naval Bathhouse

Naval Bathhouse (1907)

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Figurative
Portrait of Ernest Thiel

Portrait of Ernest Thiel (1902)

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Figurative
Portrait of the Artist’s Father

Portrait of the Artist’s Father (1888)

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Figurative
Sailor’s Ball

Sailor’s Ball (1909)

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Figurative
Self-portrait

Self-portrait (1901)

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Figurative
Armour and Helmet

Armour and Helmet (1877)

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Still Life
At Dusk

At Dusk

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Drawings
From Nature

From Nature

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Drawings
In the Ray of Sunlight

In the Ray of Sunlight

Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862-1915)
Drawings
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