14 Facts About Anders Osterlind

Anders Osterlind was the son of the painter Allan Osterlind, and the father of watercolorist Nanic Osterlind.

Anders Osterlind was close to the Fauvism artists at their peak.

Anders Osterlind developed mutual friendship and esteem with a number of prominent painters of the School of Paris, such as Amedeo Modigliani, Michel Kikoine, Chaim Soutine, Othon Friesz, Jacques Villon, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac.

However, Anders Osterlind showed a fierce sense of independence, an extreme sensitivity to nature, and a dedication to pictural mastery.

Anders Osterlind pursued, over fifty years, and in a total indifference to trends, a landscape artist's work, original and filled with strong poetic intensity.

Anders Osterlind received his primary education along the places of the family's moves, in schools at Penvern, and Brehat, in Brittany, then in Gargilesse-Dampierre and Fresselines in the Creuse area.

Anders Osterlind did not attend any art school or studio.

In 1905, at the SNBA Paint Fair, Anders Osterlind hung a pastel "L'Aurore" and an oil painting "Effet de neige", his first painting which he presented to his master Per Ekstrom as a gesture of recognition.

Anders Osterlind has left over 2000 paintings, held in private collections and in numerous museums in France and abroad.

Anders Osterlind's palette simplified: ochre, fauve and green shades prevail in the Versailles and Creuse areas and the Orne forests landscapes.

From 1926, playing audaciously with blacks and whites, Anders Osterlind provided landscapes with silvery lakes and rivers, under large grey skies, which years the critics referred to as the "grey period".

Anders Osterlind stayed in Brittany, and spent summers in Vexin, and more in particular in the sunny peace of the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, which he painted with Cezanne in mind.

Anders Osterlind's work ended by large paintings in which warm and cold tones combine in flower bunches with deep substance and landscapes radiant with an appeased inner life.

The paintings of Anders Osterlind are held by a number of private collectors, in France and abroad.