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A Day of Celebration (Fanny Brate) - Nationalmuseum - 18609
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Fanny Brate has become best known for her domestic interiors painted around the turn of the last century. A Day of Celebration is her most widely recognised work and has been reproduced on everything from postcards to coffee tins.
In A Day of Celebration Brate depicts preparations for a name’s day party in a large room at her husband’s family estate, Brategården in Bråfors in the district of Bergslagen. The room features light furniture and textiles. The off-white Gustavian 18th-century furniture is combined here with older-style painted wall hangings and modern window dressing. The table is decorated with meadow flowers and ivy. All the greenery and light of nature appears to have moved indoors. In this work, Brate thus achieves a kind of interior open-air painting. Svenska: Fanny Brate har framför allt blivit uppmärksammad för sina heminteriörer målade kring sekelskiftet 1900. Namnsdag är hennes mest kända verk. Målningen har reproducerats på allt från vykort till kaffeburkar. Här skildrar Brate förberedelserna för en namnsdagsfest i stora salen på sin mans familjegods Brategården i Bråfors i Bergslagen. Rummet är inrett med ljusa möbler och textilier. De gråvita gustavianska 1700-tals möblerna samsas med äldre bonadsmålningar och för sin tid moderna gardinuppsättningar. Bordet har dekorerats med ängsblommor och murgröna. Naturen, med dess grönska och ljus verkar ha flyttat inomhus. Brate åstadkommer härmed ett slags interiört friluftsmåleri.
Fanny Ingeborg Matilda Brate, nee Ekbom, (1862–1940) was a Swedish painter. Fanny Brate's paintings influenced Carl Larsson, and her work is seen as the inspiration for his watercolors of idyllic family life. Biography Fanny Brate was the daughter of John Frederic Oscar Gustaf Ekbom, a clerk in the household of Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland. In 1880, at the age of eighteen she was accepted at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, after having graduated from Konstfack. In 1887 Fanny Brate married runologist Erik Brate (1857–1924). They had four girls, Astrid (1888–1929), Torun (1891–1993), Ragnhild (1892–1894), Ingegerd (1899–1952). After her marriage, she was forced to give up painting, but continued her involvement in the Swedish art world as a patron for other artists. Brate became a member of Svenska Konstnärernas Förening (the Swedish artists' association) in 1891.
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