 With the road to France closed, he decided to stay in Stockholm, and managed to obtain a studio workshop on Fiskargatan 9, in the so-called "Scandalous House" near Katarina Church in the southern part of town.From his window he had a wide view of the city, the Stockholms ström and the harbour entrance.In that apartment, during the years 1914–1915, he created some of his best-known vistas of Stockholm.