2024 EXHIBITORS
GALLERIES/Clase Fine Art
About
Since founding Clase Fine Art in 2005, Andrés Clase has become known for an eclectic taste in the painted and drawn arts from the 16th to the 21st Centuries. The most constant feature is his natural interest in Nordic Artists which he mixes freely with arts from all other origins with no specific hindering boundaries.
Exhibition
Ivar Arosenius (Göteborg 1878 – 1909 Älvängen)
A serious jester
"Only the fool and the amateur soul wait for inspiration to start working. For the true artist, inspiration comes during work just as appetite comes whilst eating. First and only through diligent and uninterrupted drawing and painting does one learn to see. It is only when one sees that inspiration comes."
Ivar Arosenius, annotation in a sketchbook from the year 1900
Only 11,043 days. Ivar Arosenius's life was short. However, his oeuvre became an important chapter in Swedish art history. He was born 8th October, 1878, and passed away from a ruptured blood vessel caused by a throat infection in the night of 1st and 2nd January 1909. Congenital haemophilia, which at that time meant a constant threat to life, was a shadow that shaped his life, and it was variously reflected in his creative work.
Arosenius grew up in a bourgeois household in Gothenburg. Artistic studies at the Valand Art School in Gothenburg and occasional courses at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Artists' Association School in Stockholm never quashed his artistic temperament. In his works, there are traces of his youthful bohemian life, summer idylls in the Swedish countryside, infatuations, disappointments, and finally, of his short family life, where the joy of his daughter Lillan outshone everything else.
– To read the full essay on Ivar Arosenius please download the exhibition catalogue through the press release link.