Rear View of Daughter Solveig Sitting on a Chair
1920
About this artwork
A charcoal drawing depicting a young girl, Solveig, seen from behind as she sits on a simple wooden chair. The work features delicate, expressive linework on light-toned paper.
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Aksel Waldemar Johannessen was a Norwegian painter and printmaker known for his empathetic, often melancholic depictions of the working class and his family. This intimate study of his daughter demonstrates his ability to capture fleeting moments and human emotion with minimal, gestural marks, a hallmark of his late expressionist style.
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Rear View of Daughter Solveig Sitting on a Chair
Aksel Johannessen, 1920
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