Nils von Dardel

Dandy persona and multifaceted painter

Bibliographic Data

ID22205373
AuthorsBjörn Boman (0000-0001-7529-6713, Stockholm University, corresponding author), LEIF ÖJESJÖ (Karolinska Institutet)
Year2024
Volume10
Pages101020
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Sciences & Humanities Open (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2590-2911 • E-ISSN: 2590-2911
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.ssaho.2024.101020
OpenAlexW4400395760
LanguageEN
References cited8

The Swedish modernist painter Nils von Dardel (1888–1943) was an integral part of the avant-garde of his time. Dardel's artistic and individual expressions developed from a dandy persona, who expressed dark personal conflicts, into a more integrated humanist perspective signified by love, jealousy, ambivalent sexuality, life and death, and the absurdity of existence. It was generally a turn from negation to optimistic values, as well as to universalism. His art – ironic and bizarre – has been continuously provoking from his premature death in New York City into the postmodern 20-s century. In order to add to the international scholarly discussion, the current article sheds light on this fascinating artist's life, work, and persona. Moreover, it juxtaposes some aspects of Dardel with those of the Swedish writer and painter August Strindberg (1849–1912), as well as the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima (1925–1970)

Aesthetics · Allegory · Ambivalence · Art · Art history · Dandy · Humanities · Literature · Painting · Persona · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cinema and Media Studies · Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence · Psychology

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