Moving mountains in Swedish art history. Art historian Isabelle Gapp takes a closer look at Canadian and Scandinavian landscape painting of the early twentieth century. This lecture will be held in English.
Date and time
Friday 30 August 14:00–15:00
Location
The South courtyard, entrance floor
Langage
English
Cost
Free
Limited number of seats, no pre-bookings.
In this lecture, art historian Dr Isabelle Gapp introduces her new book A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 (Lund Humphries, 2024), and presents her chapter and research on Sweden’s northern mountains. Isabelle Gapp demonstrates that Canadian and Scandinavian landscape painting of the early twentieth century reaches far beyond national identity and a preoccupation with Eurocentrism. Here, she will bring together the work of Axel Sjöberg, Karl Nordström, and Helmer Osslund, among others, to discuss the mountainous regions of Sweden and Sápmi through the history of landscape painting.
Considering the respective environments in which these paintings were produced, this talk also touches upon the histories of iron ore mining and resource extraction, of reindeer herding and the displacement of Sámi communities, and the wealth of paintings that, knowingly or not, responded to these environmental changes.
Isabelle Gapp. Private photo.
Cover of the book A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930.
About the speaker
Dr Isabelle Gapp is an art historian who writes and teaches at the intersections of landscape painting, environmental history, and climate change around the Circumpolar North. She is an Interdisciplinary Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Aberdeen where she leads the multi-awarded project Teaching Arctic Environments and the British Academy-funded project From the Floe Edge. Isabelle is the author of A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 (Lund Humphries, 2024).