mefisto consul dahlander poster Design:Full picture Artist: Albert I

Artist: Albert I

Industrialization and the breakthrough of steam engines transformed Sweden from an agricultural society to an industrial society

The company was founded in 1841 by the Scottish businessman Alexander Keiller and was then called Keiller's Werkstad in Gothenburg

Photographer: Aftonbladet | Created: 1939 | Publisher: Stockholm City Museum | Item ID: AB000473 | Copyright: CC BY

mefisto consul dahlander poster Design:Full picture Artist: Albert IPoster with the painting Mefisto Consul Dahlander by Anders Zorn from 1884. According to Zorn himself, he was inspired to paint the subject in the morning after a festive evening in Madrid, where he had traveled from London. His model for the work was the Swedish consul in Valencia, Harald Johan Dahlander. But rather than being a portrait of the consul, the watercolor is a kind of role portrait where Zorn has adopted the consul's appearance to create