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Bruno Liljefors

Bruno Andreas Liljefors (1860 - 1939) was active/lived in Sweden.  Bruno Liljefors is known for Animal in landscape painting.

Bruno Liljefors was born the 14 May, 1860 at Uppsala and studied from 1879 to 1882 at the Academy of Arts in Stockholm.  The great animal painter travelled in Germany, Italy, and France, but has been little influenced by other painters.

He has spent nearly his whole life in Sweden, in the country, first near Uppsala, and, during the
last twenty years, some miles south of Stockholm. Liljefors is pre-eminently the painter of the forest.  It has been said of him that he paints natural history, and, indeed, in his pictures everything is reproduced with the exactness ofthe hunter and the lover of nature.

He delights in depicting the protective mimicry of animals, such as evoking symphonies of color from a group of brown-speckled waders on the sandy beach. 

Liljefors paints animals as they are when no one sees them.  He surprises them in their life and death struggles, without being visible himself. It is within his power,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2664 characters.]  Artist bio

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