Tag: Sweden

It is in 1930 that the Sweden appears almost suddenly with an extraordinary maturity on the scenes of international architecture. In fact, in that year the Stockholm exhibition opens, where G. Asplund (1885-1940) “who until then had preferred a refined classicism, as Pevsner wrote, found the way to a weightless and transparent style… [based on […]

The rapid socio-economic transformation of Sweden in the last twenty years is accompanied by a literature that has characters very similar to those of contemporary European and American literature. It can be said that since 1920 two fundamental tendencies have dominated: one realistic-social can ideally be traced back to the ideology of 80’s naturalism, the […]

It was within this situation in spirituality and in art that the naturalist revolution broke out towards the 80s. Which, referring to that return to nature from which romanticism was born and to that need for reality into which romanticism had blossomed, opposed any academic formalism and any intellectual idealism, with aggressive violence “the brutality […]

Also for Sweden, romanticism thus marked a return of poetry to the inner sources of life, a deepening of inspiration in the conscious abandonment to free creative impulse, an unlimited widening of horizons and a conquest of previously unknown spiritual worlds in life as in ‘ art. But if new perspectives in the distance opened […]

Thus was prepared the new impetus that culture and literature received in the following age. In one hundred years of history, the events of which sometimes seem legendary, the small Swedish people became one of the great political and military powers in Europe. Whole masses of Swedes poured into the fields of Europe during the […]

With the death of Charles XII, the times were therefore ripe, even in Sweden, for the Enlightenment, which dominated Swedish intellectual life for a century. With the ever increasing participation of the middle classes in the life of the spirit, culture, for one part, spread, resulting in a contitiuo flourish and flourish of magazines and […]

From the end of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century In the 1880s naturalism, promoted in Denmark by G. Brandes, became the dominant literary fashion also in Sweden, and had the maximum representative in JA Strindberg, who inspired novelists such as AC Lefflern, V. Benedictsson, and opera singers like O. Hansson. If in […]

From the origins to the 16th century If we ignore the historical, epigraphic and archaeological evidence, which makes it plausible that the Swedes have knowledge of the rich poetic, legal and narrative heritage that flourished in the pre-Christian age in the vast Norse area, we cannot speak of a Swedish literature until after conversion. to […]

As the struggles for the throne continued, the importance of another dignity grew, that of the jarl. Originally the jarl was the commander of the fleet, but his importance grew more and more and already in the second half of the century. XII he seems to have occupied a position next to, and not below, […]

An important phase of renewal in the Swedish music of the twentieth century opens during the 1940s, above all thanks to the activity of H. Rosenberg (1892-1985), composer who managed to graft the influence of the main European movements, especially Expressionism. A pupil of W. Stenhammar (1871-1927), Rosenberg was the author of a vast musical […]

Sweden (Swedish Sverige) Northern European state, consisting of the eastern regions of the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Baltic islands of Gotland and Öland and other smaller ones. It borders to the NW and W with Norway, to the NE with Finland, to the East overlooking the Gulf of Bothnia, to the SE and S to the Baltic Sea ; to the SW a narrow channel, the […]

Sweden is a country in Northern Europe, in the east of the Scandinavian Peninsula with (2018) 10.2 million residents; The capital is Stockholm. Law There are three stages in the structure of the courts, both in general courts and in administrative jurisdiction. The first instance of the general courts are the district courts (Tingsrätter), appeals […]

Characterized by a very high technological level in the industrial field, Sweden exports approx. one third of the national product and ranks with Belgium and the Netherlands among the leading world exporters in relation to the number of residents. Exports of raw materials (iron, timber, etc.) are still significant, but are constantly decreasing compared to […]