GOTTFRID KALLSTENIUS. Hammarn, Varvsholm, Klintehamn.

Oil on canvas, 41.4 x 70.5 cm. Signed and dated G. Kallstenius 1899.

LITERATURE S. Rosvall, Some of Gottfrid Kallstenius' paintings from Gotland 1899, in Gotländsk Arkiv 1989, p. 236, image 3 in color, p. 234.

EXHIBITIONS Stockholm, Swedish Artists Association, Eighth exhibition 1900, 1900, no. 84 "Late evening by the sea (Klintehamn) Stockholm, Nordiska Bokhandeln, Gottfrid Kallstenius, 21 April-21 May 1922, no. 5 "Klintehamn 1899" In the summer of 1899, Kallstenius together with his wife and their seven-year-old son rented a house in Klintehamn on Gotland, from the locally practicing doctor Carl Wilhelm Herlitz. According to some sources, the well-known art historian Johnny Roosval (1869-1965), brother of Gerda Roosval-Kallstenius, stayed in Klintehamn at the same time. Kallstenius executed several paintings in Kintehamn. There he began the studies for the work "The Master Comes", completed only several years later, to which the local population were models. On the basis of a sketch made during this stay, in 1900 he executed his famous painting "Moonlight Night. Motif from Klinte, Gotland" (Nationalmuseum NM 1551; occasionally deposited at Gotlands Museum).