Hilding Linnqvist
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"Slussbygget"
Signed HL. Executed in 1932-33. Canvas 83 x 132 cm.
Provenance
Purchased directly from the artist by Torsten & Sigrid Delin, relatives of Hilding Linnqvist's wife Märta Delin-Linnqvist, and then inherited by the current owner.
Exhibitions
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Hilding Linnqvist", October 1957, cat. no. 159.
The National Association for Visual Art, "In Schools 1945-46"
Artist
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.