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Baade and Boberg in Minneapolis
30/5/26 - Acquisitions - Minneapolis, Institute of Art - A breath of fresh air is blowing over Minneapolis thanks to two Nordic painters who have joined the collections of the Institute of Art: the Norwegian Knud Baade and the Swedish Anna Boberg.
The painting by Baade was acquired, together with its preparatory drawing, from the Benappi Fine Art gallery in London (ill. 1 and 2). Executed in 1844, it bears witness to the influence of Caspar David Friedrich on the artist, who translates the smallness and vulnerability of man in the face of Nature not by showing its unleashed forces, but the moment after: a ship, reduced to the state of a wreck, drifts in the middle of the sea, on which appears the frail silhouette of a survivor. The sky, with its shades of pink and violet in which the…
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