ALF WALLANDER

Alf Wallander was born in Stockholm on 11 October 1862. He started his artistic career as a painter. From the mid-1890s he ws designer at the Rörstrand porcelain factory. He was an important practitioner of Art Nouveau.

Wallander visited Venice on more than one occasion. See below for three of his Venice paintings.

Wallander died on 29 September 1914.

Santa Maria della Salute, Venice
View from the Molo outside the Giardino Reale,  Oil painting by Alf Wallander, 1893

This painting was sold in October 2008 by Uppsala Auktionskammare AB, and it is reproduced here by kind permission of this auction house, www.uppsalaauktion.se

Santa Maria della Salute, Venice
View from the Grand Canal towards the lagoon,  Oil painting by Alf Wallander, 1894





The Doge's Palace, Venice
The Arcade on the Piazzetta,  Oil painting by Alf Wallander, 1894