Gunnar Mauritz Widforss

สถานที่: Stockholm

เกิด: 1879

ความตาย: 1934

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Gunnar Mauritz Widforss was a Swedish American artist who specialized in painting subjects from the wilderness in watercolor. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1879 as the third of thirteen children. His father, Mauritz, owned a hunting apparel retailer bearing his name, which in 1968 was acquired by Erling Persson to form Hennes & Mauritz (H&M). Widforss' mother was an amateur artist who had studied at the Technical Institute, now Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. At the age of sixteen, Widforss began his studies of painting at the same school. Following the completion of his studies at the Technical Institute in 1900, Widforss traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia to work as an apprentice decorative painter. He returned home a year-and-a-half later and then embarked on an extended period of travel around Europe and America. Widforss worked primarily in watercolor and he led a bohemian lifestyle traveling in search of great landscapes to paint. Between 1904 and 1909 he ventured to Austria, Switzerland, the Mediterranean region and North Africa. From 1906 to 1907 he visited the United States where he resided in Jacksonville, Florida and later Brooklyn, New York doing odd jobs and paintings on commission. Widforss is most frequently associated with landscapes from American National Parks. He died in 1934 in Grand Canyon Village, Arizona.