By the 20th century artists were starting to understand why painterly images rich in brushstrokes were often more effective than those in fine detail.
Isakson
Back to the Baltic coast, with landscape paintings by Lovis Corinth, Laurits Andersen Ring, Ants Laikma, and Karl Isakson.
He spent much of the war on the Danish island of Bornholm, planning a series of paintings about death and resurrection. He died young, a century ago today.
Born into poverty in Stockholm, he worked as an assistant to Carl Larsson before training in Sweden and Paris. One of the fathers of Modernism.
