AUGUST STRINDBERG
A collection of mixed media art works and sculptures inspired by, and based on the life and work of August Strindberg. These works have been exhibited in both his home “The Blue Tower” in Stockholm, now the Strindberg museum, and in the Swedish Culture House as well as galleries in several countries, including England and the United States. August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist , expressionist painter, pioneer photographer, metallurgist (gold maker) occultist.A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition so innovative that many were to become technically possible to stage only with the advent of film. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.
Hundred years since his death 1912-2012.
Gold is the sun photographed and fixated.
A collection of mixed media art works and sculptures inspired by, and based on the life and work of August Strindberg. These works have been exhibited in both his home “The Blue Tower” in Stockholm, now the Strindberg museum, and in the Swedish Culture House as well as galleries in several countries, including England and the United States.
August Strindberg (1849 – 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist , expressionist painter, pioneer photographer, metallurgist (gold maker) occultist.A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition so innovative that many were to become technically possible to stage only with the advent of film. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.
