#frukostdags

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Frukostdags (1887) by Hanna Hirsch-Pauli

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Hanna Hirsch Pauli (Swedish, 1864-1940), Frukostdags (Breakfast time), 1887. Nationalmuseum Sweden.

Hanna Pauli received a third class medal for her work at the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris. She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. 

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Frukostdags (1887) by Hanna Hirsch Pauli

At the end of the 19th century, the number of women who chose the artist career was increasing. An important reason for this was that the artist courses were also opened to women. One of the most prominent of the generation that broke through in the 1880s was Hanna Pauli, née Hirsch. She studied at August Malmström's Painting School for Women and at the Art Academy in Stockholm and then at the Académie Colarossi in Paris.

The painting Breakfast Time was created in the Stockholm archipelago in the summer of 1887, shortly before Hanna Hirsch married the painter Georg Pauli. The painting's motif has a number of counterparts in Nordic and French art from the latter part of the 19th century. The elaborate meal, inside a dining room or out in the open, was depicted by several of the French Impressionists, as well as by Scandinavians such as Carl Larsson, Peder Severin Krøyer and Laurits Andersen Ring. Hanna Pauli has concentrated above all on the depiction of light, and has put a lot of effort into reproducing how the light falls through the foliage of the trees and creates a lively shimmer in the tablecloth and on the ground. The reflections in cups, dishes, coffee pots and glass bowls are reproduced with great accuracy.

Like most Nordic artists during the 1880s, Hanna Pauli was mainly influenced by the French realists. However, the free style of painting in Breakfast Time suggests that she was also inspired by the Impressionists. When the painting was shown at an exhibition in Stockholm, it received a mixed reception in the press. One of the most critical reviewers noted that the cloth on the table was not completely white, but looked as if some children had wiped their dirty hands on it. -- Nationalmuseum

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Hanna Hirsch-Pauli / Frukostdags (Breakfast time) / 1887 / Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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Hanna Pauli - Frukostdags (1887)