WILHELM BEHM (1859-1934): Lake in dusk, signed and dated Wilh.Behm, oil on canvas.

approx. 25x39.5 cm frame dimensions 38.5x54 cm Wilhelm Behm first studied at the Technical School and then continued for six years at the Art Academy's landscape school, 1879-85.
In his early painting, Behm worked in a manner close to Alfred Wahlberg's grayscale color scheme.
The years in Paris in 1889-90 changed his palette. Through contact with French art, Behm was led further towards an impressionistic light painting with a soft and warm color.

Towards the end of the century, Behm was influenced by the Artists' Union's national mood art. He paints with fast, free-flowing brushstrokes Swedish archipelago bays and meadows. The tradition from Carl Larsson's Swedish summer idylls lives on at Behm.

This is how his artistry is summarized in Svenskt konstnärslexikon, Allhem's publishing house: "Wilhelm Behm's artistic work has come to stand in the shadow of the pioneering artist names from the 80s and 90s, but with his objective, penetrating study of nature, he occupies a prominent position as a finely nuanced value painter place among the artists who thoughtfully and quietly talk about the idyll and poverty of Swedish nature.".
After his death in 1934, Wilhelm Behm was recognized as a prominent landscape painter with two memorial exhibitions. First at Färg och Form in 1939 and then in 1942 at Konstnärshuset. His works are in several public collections, including Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde.