In early 1887, Kreuger returned from France, where he had been living for six years. That autumn, he and his wife Bertha moved to Varberg. This view of a rainy street is from the year after and resembles Kreuger’s paintings from his time in France. The fence in the foreground forms a diagonal, drawing the viewer’s gaze into the picture. The grey tones convey a strong sense of dampness and a chilly breeze, with wooden houses and almost-bare trees. A solitary figure struggles against the wind along the red hoarding.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Nils_Kreuger" class="extiw" title="w:en:Nils Kreuger"><span title="Swedish artist (1858-1930)">Nils Kreuger</span></a>
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1888<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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