Ernst Josephson
1851-1906, SWEDEN
CLASSICALLY TRAINED IN SWEDEN, JOSEPHSON EMIGRATED TO FRANCE IN 1879 IN SEARCH OF INSPIRATION. WITHIN TEN YEARS, DELUSIONS LED HIM TO EMBRACE SPIRITUALIST PRACTICE. CATALYSED BY SEANCES, JOSEPHSON’S VISIONS TOOK ON MATERIAL FORM. THE RADICAL PAINTINGS (AND POEMS) WERE AMONGST HIS MOST DYNAMIC WORKS, ALTHOUGH (AS HE CLAIMED) THEY WERE AUTHORED BY THE DEAD. JOSEPHSON RETURNED TO SWEDEN, WHERE AN ASYLUM BECAME HIS STUDIO FOR MUCH OF THE REST OF HIS LIFE.
The Medium's Medium, The Gallery of Everything (London) 2019
Ten By Ten, CFHILL Art Space (Stockholm) 2018
the drawing room, MAGASIN3 STOCKHOLM KONSTHALL (STOCKHOLM) 2010
new acquisitions, THE Göteborg museum of art (gothenburg) 2013/14
A HIDDEN TREASURE, THE Göteborg museum of art (gothenburg) 2013
CARL LARSSON: FRIENDS AND ENEMIES, NATIONAL MUSEUM SWEDEN (STOCKHOLM) 2013
NORDIC ART 1880-1920, GRONINGER MUSEUM (GRONINGEN) 2013
THRICE UPON A TIME, MAGASIN3 STOCKHOLM KONSTHALL (STOCKHOLM) 2010
HAND-MADE: DRAWINGS FROM THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, NATIONAL MUSEUM SWEDEN (STOCKHOLM) 2010
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY GEMS, NATIONAL MUSEUM SWEDEN (STOCKHOLM) 2009
Erik Blomberg, ERNST JOSEPHSONS KONST: Historie, Portratt och Genremalaren, Sveriges Allmanna Konstforenings, Stockholm, 1956
