Har Dansar Fridolin (from a poem by Erik Axel Karlfeldt)

 

Violet Wilson

  1902 - PRESENT (biography)

c. 1930  

calligraphy and burnished gilding 

6 1/2 x 5" image size 

ink, lower left 

1 of 1 unique 

In ink, lower left image: "Written and gilded by / Violet Wilson." 

 

ivory wove 

 

 

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Erik Axel Karlfeldt (July 20, 1864 – April 8, 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931. It has been rumored that he had been offered, but declined, the award already in 1919. Fridolin was his alter-ego, bachelor poet about whose adventures Karlfeldt wrote the "Fridolin Collections." The poems reflect his character's return to the countryside and a more naturalistic life style. See our biography of Violet Wilson for more information on the calligrapher.