Bruno LILJEFORS
1860–1939, Sweden
Also known as: BL
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, motif with seabirds, signed "Bruno Liljefor", size 36x62,5 cm. The painting was for sale at an online auction house in Stockholm in spring 2013. It had been submitted along with another counterfeit painting signed "Zorn". The painting has been investigated by technical and specialist expertise which found that an area next to the existing signature has been tampered with and that the signature is not performed by the artist Bruno Liljefors. The district court: The painting is a fake. The signature shall be removed and the painting will permanently be noted that the signature is removed. The owner regains the painting after this action.
Signature proven counterfeit
Watercolour, Three crows, signed "Bruno Liljefors 1890", size 56x49 cm. The painting was for sale at an online auction house in Stockholm, Sweden, in October 2015. The staff contacted the police and reported that they had a suspected counterfeit painting signed Bruno Liljefors sale. The police took the painting seized for further investigation. Court decision: Examination and expert opinion showed that the painting was a forgery. The painting is forfeited.
Signature proven counterfeit
India Ink Drawing, Fox with hare, signed "BL" 10.5 x18 cm. Ostensibly picturing a genuine painting by artist Bruno Liljeforsgatan. The artwork had been submitted to an online auction house in Stockholm where it was noted as suspected to be a forgery. The submitter stated in the police interrogation that the artwork is a gift to the family directly from the artist himself. After investigation it was found that the painting is not authentic, it is a forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, fox in winter snow, signed "Bruno Liljefors". 48x60 cm. Fox in winter snow is a very popular motif to forge. It may be complete fakes, where they copied Bruno Liljefors and then forged his signature. It can also be paintings made by others and later received Liljefors signature. On the back of this painting was a certificate of authenticity of the "Gustav Jaensson" (Jansson) in Stockholm. This person had written many dishonest certificates in several of the paintings seized in connection with the investigation against the league “The Society of Art Friends”. The story of “The Society of Art Friends”. Three men, aged 30, 37, and 40 years old, were caught in Stockholm, Sweden after a reconnaissance tip from police in Ängelholm, Sweden. Shortly afterwards, another two men were caught. In total, 48 house searches were made through out the nation from which 83 forged paintings were confiscated. Forged art had already been sold for millions of Swedish crowns. Victims of the gang were well known businessmen with considerable incomes. League had good help from educated art experts who have written certificate of authenticity to many of the fake paintings, often at very small remuneration. On a door to a flat in Stockholm the men had displayed a sign with the text “The Society of Art Friends”.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas with fake signature forest with leaping hare in winter snow, signed "Bruno Liljefors -31", 50x60 cm. Hare in winter snow is a very popular motif to forge. It may be complete fakes, where they copied Bruno Liljefors and then forged his signature. It can be overpriced paintings made by others and later Received Liljefors signature. When examined with UV light it seemed clear that the painting has been manipulated in the lower right corner. An old signature was scraped away. On the back of this painting was a certificate of authenticity of the "Gustav Jaensson" (Jansson) in Stockholm. This person had written many dishonest certificates in several of the paintings seized in connection with the investigation against the league "“The Society of Art Friends"”. The story of “The Society of Art Friends”. Three men, aged 30, 37, and 40 years old, were caught in Stockholm, Sweden after a reconnaissance tip from police in Ängelholm, Sweden. Shortly afterwards, another two men were caught. In total, 48 house searches were made through out the nation from which 83 forged paintings were confiscated. Forged art had already been sold for millions of Swedish crowns. Victims of the gang were well known businessmen with considerable incomes. League had good help from educated art experts who have written certificate of authenticity to many of the fake paintings, often at very small remuneration. On a door to a flat in Stockholm the men had displayed a sign with the text "“The Society of Art Friends"”.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, motif foxhunting in the winter landscape, signed "Bruno Liljefors." The whole painting, in addition, the fox and the dogs are over-painted with acrylic and then signed again. Technical examination with UV light shows how much of that has been painted over, and also the material of the painting is done in. With the help of infrared radiation can also see the underlying signature. A sample of the solvent which dissolves acrylic but not the oil conducted to show the beginning of the underlying the signature. It also shows soil layer imposed on the painting to give it an ancient appearance, was done in acrylic, a modern material such as Bruno Liljefors never used. The painting is part of a large seizure of counterfeit art in Halmstad from the beginning of the 2000's.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, signed Bruno Liljefors 1927. This painting was found during the searches of a private home. The owner stated that he acquired the painting through an exchange at a price of SEK 4000 by two men and one woman (strangers). The painting was examined by the National Museum in Stockholm, who immediately noted that the painting was a forgery and not signed by Bruno Liljefors.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, motif grouse in the forest, signed "B.L." in the lower left corner, 30x38 cm. On the reverse is the inscription "grouse in birch forest 1916." The painting has previously been provided with certificates of authenticity by Gustaf Jaensson but that has been painted over 1970. Included among a high number of confiscated forged art called ”The Society of Art Friends” in Sweden. Three men, aged 30, 37, and 40 years old, were caught in Stockholm, Sweden after a tip off from the police reconnaissance force in Ängelholm, Sweden. Shortly afterwards, another two men were caught. In total, 48 house searches were made through out the nation from which 83 forged paintings were confiscated. Forged art had already been sold for millions of Swedish crowns. Victims of the gang were well known, well to do, businessmen. The gang were aided by art experts who, for very little money, issued certificates of authenticity for a number of the forged paintings. On a door to a flat in Stockholm the men had displayed a sign with the text “The Society of Art Friends”.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, ducks waterfront, signed "Bruno Liljefors", 65x100 cm. In the lower left corner there is an over painted area. The painting is signed afterwards in the lower right corner. The Danish artist Henning Hovgaard has stated that he painted the painting in 1958. He has painted many similar motifs and recognize their own way of painting. He signed it with his own name and sold it as an original work. The District Court's decision: The painting has a forged signature and is not an original work of Bruno Liljefors.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, 74x92, motives fox in burrow. Signed "Bruno Liljefors 1939" in the lower left corner. Sold at auction for SEK75.000, but was paid back later when the suspicion that the painting was a forgery. The auction house paid the money back. The painting, along with eight other works of art were submitted to a pawnbroker in Göteborg in Sweden. They have subsequently been released to an auction house in Stockholm for sale. All the artwork in the investigation is false. The owner, JW has been the subject of serious investigation into embezzlement and is also guilty of this. A painting that was stored in the bank deposit has been submitted to the auction house for sale. Although this board has proven to be false. It is signed Toulose Lautrec.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, motif with hare in the forest, signed "Bruno Liljefors", 33x41 cm. Technical examination and illumination with UV light show that there are traces of a signature in the lower right corner. Since then, the painting has a new signature in the lower left corner. Bruno Liljefors painted with a much higher quality than this painting. The painting is part of a large seizure of counterfeit art from the 1980's. The painting is a forgery and shall be forfeited.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, 76x126 cm, signed "Bruno Liljefors 1915". On the back is a certificate of authenticity performed by "Gustav Jaensson". This is a copy of an original work of Bruno Liljefors painted by an amateur. The signature has been painted later, after the painting was originally produced. The painting's lower right corner changes have been made. Probably the original signature is scraped away. The copy is so bad that it has not been acceptable if it performed in a museum. There is an original painting by Liljefors as a model for this painting. Gustaf Jaensson denies that he has written certificate of authenticity on the back of the canvas. The artist Lindorm Liljefors (son of Bruno) said during questioning that he is convinced that the painting is equipped with a forged signature. The district court's assessment: The painting seems to have been made as a copy and later altered and signed in the name Bruno Liljefors. It is therefore a forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, signed "Bruno Liljefors", 64x100 cm. Technical examination of Mattias Persson has shown that the painting's lower left corner has been processed and that the signature is superficial on the outside end of the varnish. It is an amateur-made copy of a Liljefors-painting probably named "Felling geese". Artist Lindorm Liljefors, son of Bruno Liljefors, has said he is convinced that the painting is false signed. The District Court's Verdict: This painting, signed Bruno Liljefors, have been subjected to such measures that it has been a forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, 33x48 cm, apparently representing an original painting by Bruno Liljefors, subjects with sea birds in the archipelago, signed "Bruno Liljefors." This painting is a reduced copy of Bruno Liljefors original painting that is, at this time, at the "Thilska Galleriet" in Stockholm. Compared to the original is this painting clumsily and hesitantly made without artistic quality. Technical examination of the signature shows that it is counterfeit and applied retrospectively. The district court's assessment: The painting is not done, nor signed by Bruno Liljefors. It is a forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
Oil on canvas, motif with birds in the archipelago, 35x91 cm, signed "Bruno Liljefors' and provided with certificates of authenticity by Gustaf Jaensson. The painting is signed at the same time it was painted and not altered since. An amateurish painting made of thin cotton cloth. The painting is a copy of a larger Liljefors painting, which, at that time, were on the Thielska Gallery in Stocholm. The artist Lindorm Liljefors (Son of Bruno) has looked at the painting and certifies that it is a forgery and not signed by his father, Bruno Liljefors. The district court's judgment: Because the painting was signed with Bruno Liljefors signature and not reported as a copy it is a forgery.
Signature proven counterfeit
Watercolor on paper, apparently representing an original painting by Bruno Liljefors, subjects with owl, signed "Bruno Liljefors." The painting was seized in a small auction house in Stockholm in 1988. The district court's assessment: The painting is not done, nor signed by Bruno Liljefors. It is a forgery and shall be forfeited.
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Bruno Andreas Liljefors (1860–1939) was a Swedish artist, the most important and probably the most influential wildlife painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He also drew some sequential picture stories, making him one of the early Swedish comic creators. Liljefors is held in high esteem by painters of wildlife and is acknowledged as an influence, for example, by American wildlife artist Bob Kuhn. All his life Liljefors was a hunter, and he often painted predator-prey action, the hunts engaged between fox and hare, sea eagle and eider, and goshawk and black grouse serving as prime examples. However, he never exaggerated the ferocity of the predator or the pathos of the prey, and his pictures are devoid of sentimentality. The influence of the Impressionists can be seen in his attention to the effects of environment and light, and later that of Art Nouveau in his Mallards, Evening of 1901, in which the pattern of the low sunlight on the water looks like leopardskin, hence the Swedish nickname Panterfällen. Bruno was fascinated by the patterns to be found in nature, and he often made art out of the camouflage patterns of animals and birds. He particularly loved painting capercaillies against woodland, and his most successful painting of this subject is the largescale Capercaillie Lek, 1888, in which he captures the atmosphere of the forest at dawn. He was also influenced by Japanese art, for example in his Goldfinches of the late 1880s. During the last years of the nineteenth century, a brooding element entered his work, perhaps the result of turmoil in his private life, as he left his wife, Anna, and took up with her younger sister, Signe, and was often short of money. This darker quality in his paintings gradually began to attract interest and he had paintings exhibited at the Paris Salon. He amassed a collection of animals to act as his living models. Ernst Malmberg recalled: The animals seemed to have an instinctive trust and actual attraction to him...There in his animal enclosure, we saw his inevitable power over its many residents—foxes, badgers, hares, squirrels, weasels, an eagle, eagle owl, hawk, capercaillie and black game. The greatness of Liljefors lay in his ability to show animals in their environment. Sometimes he achieved this through hunting and observation of the living animal, and sometimes he used dead animals: for example his Hawk and Black Game, painted in the winter of 1883-4, was based on dead specimens, but he also used his memory of the flocks of black grouse in the meadows around a cottage he once lived in at Ehrentuna, near Uppsala. He wrote: The hawk model, a young one, I killed myself. Everything was painted out of doors as was usually done in those days. It was a great deal of work trying to position the dead hawk and the grouse among the bushes that I bent in such a way as to make it seem lively, although the whole thing was in actuality a still life.
Source: http://brunoliljefors.org/
Bruno Liljefors föddes den 14 maj 1860 i Uppsala som son till kruthandlaren Anders Liljefors (1813-) och Margareta Maria Lindbeck (1829-). Som barn sägs det att Bruno var sjuklig och klen och tillbringade därför mycket tid inomhus där han satt och tecknade och ritade. För att bättra på sin hälsa ordinerades han frisk luft och promenader.
Redan som ung tecknade han med säker hand djur i rörelse, såsom hundar, rävar och flygande fåglar. Han tillbringade mycket tid ute i naturen, både på jaktturer och som friluftsman. All dessa övningar fick honom att växa upp till en atletisk gymnast. Tillsammans med sina två yngre bröder uppträdde han till och med på cirkus under en period som "Bröderna Manzondi".
Nitton år gammal började han på konstakademin där han gick åren 1879-1882. Där lärde han känna Anders Zorn och de blev goda vänner.
Under studietiden drog han sig fram genom att sälja en del djurmålningar till tidningar, bland annat Ny Illustrerad Tidning som betalade en 30-40 kr per djurbild. Hans "extraknäck" gick dock ut över studierna men lärarna gick med på lite frånvaro då de insåg vilken talang han var. Stämningen vid akademin ändrades efter att två av lärarna dog inom loppet av ett halvår. Nu tolererades plötsligt ingen frånvaro längre, och bland annat Anders Zorn lämnade då skolan och 1882 slutade även Bruno.
Han reste utomlands en tid, bland annat i Frankrike, Danmark och några månader i Düsseldorf där han fick vägledning i sitt måleri av djur- och jaktmålaren Carl Friedrich Deiker (1836-1892). Väl hemma tog han emot beställningar på målerier, vilket han höll på med hela 1880- och 90-talet.
Tjugosju år gammal (1887) gifte han sig med Anna Olofsson och året därpå (1888) blev han erbjuden att vikariera på två år för Carl Larsson som föreståndare för Valands målarskola i Göteborg. Carl skulle till Paris och måla tavlor för sin välgörare Pontus Fürstenberg (1827-1902). Fürstenberg var en man som engagerade sig i de unga konstnärerna i Göteborg och Bruno fick inom kort uppdrag av honom han också. Brunos hemlängtan blev emellertid för stor och efter ett års vikariat sa han upp sig och reste hem till Kvarnbo utanför Uppsala. Hans äktenskap med Anna var inte så lyckat och efter några år skiljde de sig. 1895 gifte han sig med hennes yngre syster Signe Olofsson. År 1906 kallades han till ordförande medlem i Berlins konstakademi. Bruno var en av de bästa och duktigaste djurmålare Sverige haft. Han dog i Stockholm den 18 december 1939, 79 år gammal.
Source: http://www.historiesajten.se
Rapphöns
Rapphöna Vid Rede (-89)
Sträckande Ejderpar (1936)
Smygande Katt (-90)
Räv I Vinterlandskap
Ejdrar På Skär (1912)
Domherrar I Vinterlandskap (-85)
Landskap Med Jagande Räv
Höstlandskap
Slädfärd
Landskap Med Lyftande Gräsänder (1917)
Jeppe (-84)
Harstudier (-85)
Ejdrar Vid Vattenbryn (1913)
Smygande Räv (-87)
Vårnatt (-96)
Vinterhare
Räv I Vinterlandskap (1927)
Hare I Vinterlandskap (1927)
Alfågelflock I Havsbandet (1911)
Gustaf Kolthoff På Jakt Med Hund (1888)
Fåglar Vid ängen (1933)
Sträckande Svanar (1938)
Barrskog Med Skogsmård Anfallande En Orrhöna (-88)
Sträckande änder
Jägare (-88)
Räv Och Orrhöns I Vinterlandskap
Sträckande Svanar
Gåsskytte (Executed ca.1896)
Rävjakt I Vinterlandskap (1924)
Skiss, Sterbhusstämpel á Tergo
Hare I Vinterlandskap (1900)
Morkulla I Skymning
Två Rävar I Vinterlandskap
Räv Och Gräsand (1938)
Harar I Landskap
örnar Slår Hare I Vinterlandskap
Sträckande Svanar I Skymning
Räv Och Orrhöna I Vinterlandskap (1938)
Orrspel (1900)
Hare I Vinterlandskap (1929)
Landskap Med Taltrast Vid Vattendrag (-91)
Hare I Vinterlandskap
Jakthund Med Rävbyte
Sträckande Svanar
Spanande Räv Vid Vattenbryn (1915)
Untitled
Räv I Vinterlandskap (1938)
Rapphöna
Sträckande Svanar I Höstlandskap
Rävjägare På Pass (1890)
Andfamilj (1911)
Landskap I Aftonstämning Med Räv Och Sjöfåglar (-89)
Orrspel (1907)
Grytjakt
Fällande Sädgäss (1921)
Svart Häst (-87)
Räv Som Lurar På Byte
Räv I Vinterlandskap (1930)
Ejderpar över Havet (1921)
Trutar (1934)
Gula Näckrosor (1919)
Hundvalp Med Blå Bandrosett (-84)
Sjöfåglar
Jägare Med Hund (1893)
Landskapsstudie
Björnjakt (1879)
Vinterhare (1932)
Grytjakt Med Hundar (1894)
Två Pointrar
Räv Vid Strandkanten (1925)
Män I Eka
Rapphöns
Rävfamilj Vid Grytet (1905)
Rävfamilj Vid Grytet (1905)
Rävfamilj (1918)
Ejdrar I Vågor (1899)
Aftonstämning Med Ejdrar På Kobbe (1929)
Vilande Havstrutar (-96)
