Georg Pauli

Georg Vilhelm Pauli ( born July 2, 1855 in Jonkoping, † November 28, 1935 in Stockholm) was a Swedish painter.

Pauli studied from 1872 to 1875 at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm and led several study trips to Paris and Italy. In 1887, he married the artist Hanna Hirsch. From 1893 to 1897 he was head of the artist and painting school at the Gothenburg Museum and then he spent another year in Italy. In 1905 Pauli lived in Nacka, near Stockholm, but he spent the winter time mostly in France.

Pauli was part of the artist group " Opponenterna ", which called for a modernization of education at the Swedish Academy of Arts. From 1891 he was a member of the Swedish Union of Artists. Besides his work as a painter, he wrote art-historical essays that were published in professional journals.

Pauli took over many decorative jobs and created frescoes for Gothenburg's old Museum ( trade and shipping, science and art and Parnassus - completed 1896) and various educational institutions. In Jönköping, he designed Cubist nudes, which he was one of the first Swedish artist who used this style.

Works (selection)

• Flower Girl (1878 )
• Evening reading ( created in Paris Study of a Woman Reading in the lamplight, 1884)
• At the bedside (1885 )
• Winter evening ( Stockholms ström view of, 1889)
• Island of Love ( Mural in the personal studio, 1891)
• Midsummer (fresco in a Stockholm establishment, boys girls decorate a maypole, 1900, amended 1904)
• Stockholm Views ( main building of the Swedish Trade Bank, 1905)
• Groups with known spectacles (buffet the Dramatic Theatre, 1908)
• Kiruna, young people in the bathroom ( 1914)