Scandinavian
Scandinavian posters: grey interiors, muted portraits and quiet northern landscape, chosen for calm and the light that comes off pale walls.
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Scandinavian posters: light, silence and rooms with nobody in them
Nordic painting of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century is built on a particular kind of light: low, grey, coming through a window at an angle. It produced interiors with no people in them, portraits that look away from the viewer, and — in Hilma af Klint's case — some of the first abstract paintings made anywhere, years before Kandinsky.
What is in this collection
- Vilhelm Hammershøi — Stue, Stue Studie and Interior with an Easel. Empty rooms, a door ajar, everything in grey and ochre.
- Edvard Munch — the exhibition poster and the 1969 print.
- Helene Schjerfbeck — Blond Woman, The Family Heirloom and Girl from Eydtkuhnen: portraits reduced to a few planes of colour.
- Hilma af Klint — the Tree of Knowledge series, No. 1 to No. 7b, with its spirals, letters and symmetrical diagrams.
- The modern breakthrough — Stockholm 1930, the exhibition that introduced functionalism to Scandinavia.
How to choose one
Hammershøi is the calmest thing in the shop and works above a bed or in a hallway where the light is already soft. Schjerfbeck suits a room with warm wood. Munch is the one that adds tension — put him alone. The Hilma af Klint series is best as a group: two or three of the Tree of Knowledge prints hung in a row, in order, read as one work.
The minimal collection shares the same restraint, and a Hammershøi next to a William Morris pattern gives you the two poles of northern European design.
Sizes, paper and delivery
Every poster is printed on Hahnemühle paper and is available in sizes from 30×40 to 70×100 cm, plus A3 and A2. The af Klint prints need size to work as a group; the interiors work at 40×50. Orders leave the studio within 24 business hours, delivery in the EU takes 3–5 working days (3–6 outside the EU), and every parcel is tracked.
Why these rooms still look modern
They were painted before minimalism had a name, by artists who had removed everything they did not need. That is why a Hammershøi interior fits an apartment built a century later without a single adjustment.
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