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Liljefors, Bruno (Andreas)
(b Uppsala, 14 May 1860; d Uppsala, 18 Dec 1939). Swedish painter. He studied at the Konstakademi in Stockholm (1879–82). During a trip abroad in 1882–3 he attended lectures by the German animal painter Carl Friedrich Deiker (d 1892) in Düsseldorf, where he also made animal studies at the city zoo, one of the largest in Europe. He concluded his travels by visiting France in 1883–4 and again in 1886. For a while he was a member of the Scandinavian artists’ colony in Grez-sur-Loing and he exhibited at the Salon in Paris in 1884. The influence of both French plein-air painting and Japanese woodcuts is apparent in his first important work, Hawk and Black Game (1884; Stockholm, Nmus.; see fig.), a ‘close-up’ of nature that fills the whole picture surface. The birds’ struggle in the centre of the painting is depicted with detailed precision, and the animals’ lightning movements at the moment of attack are accurately caught. The surroundings are smoothly sketched in pale grey tones.
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