Jurgen Wrangel, Theokritos Idyller, Bonnier, Stockholm, 1929Jurgen Wrangel was a Swedish artist,engr
Jurgen Wrangel, Theokritos Idyller, Bonnier, Stockholm, 1929Jurgen Wrangel was a Swedish artist,engraver and translator born in Skåne in1881. He was a member of the group De tolv. In an aristocratic andcompletely countercurrent attempt, he produced a collection of drypoint illustrationsfor Theokritos Idyller, published in 150 exemplars by Bonnier in 1929. A shyand reserved personality, he was a friend of Carl Milles and his art wasappreciated by Prins Eugen. He kept working against the stream of modernism inalmost total oblivion of his contemporaries until his death in 1957. -- source link
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