Oil on canvas
60 x 95 cm, 73.5 x 108 cm framed
Signed and dated 1940
A mesmerising moonlight creeps through the clouds and reflects over the water. Inside the house there is a single, somewhat haunting, light inside the house creating a mysterious yet enticing atmosphere. Lindberg’s works are often dramatic, open landscapes, absent of humans, which convey the stunning power of nature but this work is different and taps into a more intimate, more peculiar emotion.
Born in Söderhamn, Sweden in 1880, Lindberg studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and later travelled to Germany and Italy to continue his studies. Lindberg's style shows an engagement with Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, which can seen through his desire to capture light and atmosphere and also depict the ungraspable or unexplainable.
