Hilding Linnqvist
"Vaser och krus" (Vases and jars)
Signed HL. Executed in 1930. Panel 54.5 x 65.5 cm.
Viss ytsmuts.
Provenance
PhD Georg Svensson.
Exhibitions
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, "Hilding Linnqvist", 26 December 1986 - 2 February 1987, cat no 49.
Designer
Hilding Linnqvist is one of Sweden's most important naïve painters and became established and known early on for his colourful compositions. Linnqvist was a key figure in lyrical naivism in Sweden, with a style of painting that departed from the technical perfection he had been trained in. Several Swedish artists joined this innovative direction for the time. After studying at the Technical School and the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, he was inspired by Edward Munch and Ernst Josephson's malaise art, which led him towards a freer and more uninhibited style of painting. During the 1920s, Linnqvist travelled abroad several times and his colours became brighter and his subjects more detailed.
He later painted coastal scenes and portraits, among other things. By the early 1940s, Hilding Linnqvist was an established and well-travelled artist, as well as a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1939-1941 and the subject of a major exhibition there in 1940.