Knut Ekwall

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Knut Ekwall was a Swedish painter, born 3 April 1843 in Säby (province Småland), Sweden, died 4 April 1912 in Säby. Ekwall studied from 1860-1866 at the Academy of Arts in Stockholm, with emphasis on xylography (designing woodcut printing blocks) and drawing. He became a pupil in Berlin of the painter Ludwig Knaus. In 1870, Ekwall established himself as an artist in Munich in Germany and later worked in Leipzig. His works during this period were primarily for magazine illustrations, and were reproduced as engravings. He returned to Sweden and died there at the age of 69.

[edit] Known and/or accepted works

Illustrations of "Frithiof's Saga" by Esaias Tegnér

• Painting: "The Fisherman and the Siren"
• Painting: "The Proposal"
• Painting: "The Reading Lesson"
• Painting: "Lost Luck", "The Consolation" or "Away to School".
• Engraving: "The Fair Dreamer".
• Painting: "The Emigrants"

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• "The Proposal"
• "The Emigrants"
• "An den Gewässern von Gudbrandsdalen"
• "Festszene bei der Einweihung des Hermannsdenkmals. Nach der Natur aufgenommen von Knut Ekwall«. In: Die Gartenlaube. Illustriertes Familienblatt, 1875"
• "Efter skörden"
• "The Fisherman and the Siren"
• "Broken Luck"
• "At the Railway Restaurant"