Eugène Jansson

Eugène Fredrik Jansson was born on March, 18th 1862 at Stockholm. He was a Swedish painter . Towards the end of his life, from about 1904, he mainly painted male nudes. The earlier of these phases has caused him to sometimes be referred to as  "the blue-painter".

 Eugène and his younger brother Adrian. Eugène went to the German School in Stockholm and took piano lessons. An attack of scarlet fever at the age of fourteen caused him health issues which he suffered from for the rest of his life, including bad eyesight and hearing and chronic kidney problem

 He was accepted into the Antique school of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1881, but did not have the means to follow most of his contemporaries to Paris for further studies.
He lived his whole life together with his mother and brother at Södermalm.
 He stopped participating in exhibitions for several years and went over to figure painting. To combat the health issues he had suffered from since childhood, he became a diligent swimmer and winter bather, often visiting the navy bathhouse, where he found the new subjects for his paintings.

Art historians and critics have long avoided the issue of any possible homoerotic tendencies in this later phase of his art, but later studies  have established that Jansson was in all probability homosexual and appears to have had a relationship with at least one of his models.

He died on June 15th 1915 at Skara at 53 years old.

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