Works by Hugo Simberg
200 works · 295 ms
In the 1890s watercolours of the Finnish painter Hugo Simberg, Death is a skeleton in a dark cape who waters potted plants and stops to hear a boy play the fiddle.
After drawing school, where Helene Schjerfbeck was among his teachers, Simberg spent three spells between 1895 and 1897 studying privately with Akseli Gallen-Kallela at Kalela, his studio in the wilds of Ruovesi. Most of the works below are drawings and prints, and most of the dated ones come from the 1890s.
In Death and the Peasant, Death walks off with a white sack, a small bald head, apparently a child's, poking out of the top, while a man stands facing out with his hands in his pockets. The Garden of Death of 1896 returned a year later as a print, with the same skeletons, watering can and rows of pots. After a bout of meningitis in 1902, Simberg painted The Wounded Angel in oil: two boys carry an angel whose eyes are bound with a white cloth, and the boy at the back turns to stare out.
Sources: Wikidata, Wikipedia, Finnish National Gallery.
Fairy Tale I
Hugo Simberg, 1895
Self-Portrait
Hugo Simberg, 1907
Death and the Peasant
Hugo Simberg, 1895
Death and the Peasant
Hugo Simberg, 1896
Fairy Tale
Hugo Simberg, 1897
The Poor Devil by the Fire ; The Devil by the Pot
Hugo Simberg, 1897
Dance on the Quay
Hugo Simberg, 1899
Autumn II
Hugo Simberg, 1895
Portrait of Inge Simberg
Hugo Simberg, 1908
Garland Bearer ; Boy Carrying the Garland of Life, study for the Tampere Cathedral fresco
Hugo Simberg, 1905
The Devil on the Swing
Hugo Simberg, 1907
Ice Skaters
Hugo Simberg, 1906
Marie von Heiroth
Hugo Simberg, 1904
Death and the Old Woman
Hugo Simberg
Finsk elegi
Hugo Simberg, 1895–1896
Gallen-Kallela Skiing
Hugo Simberg, 1897
In Thought
Hugo Simberg, 1897
Homeward Bound
Hugo Simberg, 1901
Restin Model
Hugo Simberg, 1904
Bathing Cabin
Hugo Simberg
Figure in the Desert and a Skull, fresco study for Tampere Cathedral
Hugo Simberg, 1904
Kuolema ja nälkä, luonnos Tampereen tuomiokirkon lasimaalausta varten. Kahden puolen kirjaimet r ja i
Hugo Simberg
Vintervägen I
Hugo Simberg, 1899
At the Crossroads
Hugo Simberg, 1896
Autumn I
Hugo Simberg, 1895
Autumn in the Forest
Hugo Simberg, 1895
Spring Evening, Ice Break
Hugo Simberg, 1897
The Garden of Death
Hugo Simberg, 1896
The Peasant and Death at the Gates of Heaven and Hell
Hugo Simberg, 1897
Adam and Eve
Hugo Simberg, circa 1895
Round Dance
Hugo Simberg, 1898
Fairy Tale
Hugo Simberg, 1898
Vision
Hugo Simberg, 1895
Autumn I
Hugo Simberg, 1896
The Witch at the Stake
Hugo Simberg
Devil Keeping an Eye on the Earth ; Poor Devil Inspecting the Earth
Hugo Simberg, 1899
Garland Bearers II
Hugo Simberg, 1908
Pariisin laidoilta
Hugo Simberg, 1910
Tampereen tuomiokirkon urkulehterin holvin lakiympyrän luonnos, orjantappura- ja ruusumotiivi, ei lopullinen
Hugo Simberg
Täti
Hugo Simberg, 1897
Heating the Sauna
Hugo Simberg, 1897
Winter Road II
Hugo Simberg, 1899
Kitaransoittaja (Anni Bremer)
Hugo Simberg, 1909
Köynnöstä olkapäällään kantava poika, luonnos Tampereen tuomiokirkon lehterimaalauksia varten
Hugo Simberg
The Artist's Aunt and Father
Hugo Simberg, 1897
Pelikaani, luonnos Tampereen tuomiokirkon lasimaalausta varten
Hugo Simberg
Antti Favén Pariisissa
Hugo Simberg
The Wounded Angel
Hugo Simberg, 1903
In the Rocking Chair, Anni Bremer
Hugo Simberg, 1908
King Hobgoblin Sleeping
Hugo Simberg, 1896
Fear in The Woods
Hugo Simberg, 1896
Death Listens
Hugo Simberg, 1897
The Moon is Rising
Hugo Simberg
Boy Carrying the Garland of Life
Hugo Simberg, 1905
The Garden of Death ; In the Garden of Death
Hugo Simberg, 1897
The Night Wanderer
Hugo Simberg, 1890–1896
Auntie; The Artist's Aunt
Hugo Simberg, 1898
Creature
Hugo Simberg, 1896
Death on Skates ; Death Skating
Hugo Simberg, 1899
Gallen-Kallela "Mäster"
Hugo Simberg, 1897
In the Studio
Hugo Simberg, 1910
The Wounded Angel, landscape study
Hugo Simberg, 1902
Man with a Red Moustache
Hugo Simberg, 1903
Old Woman at the Sauna Door
Hugo Simberg
The Devil Blowing
Hugo Simberg
The Mystery of the Carpenter
Hugo Simberg, 1892
Exlibris Axel Gallén
Hugo Simberg, 1896–1897
Tampereen tuomiokirkon keskiholvi, varhainen luonnos, ruusu- ja orjantappurakoristelua
Hugo Simberg
Kaksi luonnosta Tampereen tuomiokirkon (Johanneksen kirkko) keskiholvin käärmeseen
Hugo Simberg
Fisherman
Hugo Simberg
Leijona kuolleen pentunsa vierellä, luonnos Tampereen tuomiokirkon lasimaalauksiin
Hugo Simberg
Fairy Tale II
Hugo Simberg, 1896
On the River of Life ; The Stream of Life
Hugo Simberg, 1896
The Devil in the Rose Bush
Hugo Simberg
Fantasy
Hugo Simberg, 1896
Frost
Hugo Simberg, 1895
Spring Feeling
Hugo Simberg, 1895
Mountain Stream in Caucasia
Hugo Simberg, 1899
From Vyborg
Hugo Simberg, 1899
Boy from Säkkijärvi
Hugo Simberg, 1897
Thorn Gate
Hugo Simberg, 1908
Playmates
Hugo Simberg, 1897
The Black Death
Hugo Simberg, 1906
Garland Bearers II
Hugo Simberg, 1906
Fantasy 1. A Giant Drinking 2. Ikiturso
Hugo Simberg
Piru muuttaa
Hugo Simberg
On the Shore
Hugo Simberg, 1910
Kevättä kohti
Hugo Simberg
The Sledge
Hugo Simberg, 1899
Swan song
Hugo Simberg, 1899
On the Shore Rock
Hugo Simberg, 1897
Broom Granny
Hugo Simberg, 1897
Pelikaani ruokkii poikasiaan. Luonnos Tampereen tuomiokirkon lasimaalauksiin
Hugo Simberg
Summer Waves
Hugo Simberg, 1898
Gallen-Kallela with his Pipe
Hugo Simberg, 1897
Punainen ja valkoinen hevonen, luonnos Tampereen tuomiokirkon pohjoislehterin lasimaalausta varten
Hugo Simberg
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