Oscar Reutersvärd was born in 1915 in Stockholm and died in 2002 in Lund. He was both a visual artist and a sculptor, later a professor; student at Otte Sköld, and Otto G Carlsund in Stockholm, and in Paris he studied for Fernand Léger. An apprenticeship about which he himself said: “Through my training under Otto G Carlsund and Fernand Léger, I am a representative of the purist ideologies. In my chains and 'impossible figures', purism's demands for clarity, precision and firmness of principle are met. But in a reverse way. ” In 1953, Reutersvärd became an associate professor at Stockholm University and in 1964 a professor of art history with art theory at Lund University. He is currently represented at the Moderna Muséet in Stockholm, the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Musée des beaux-arts in Rouen and the National Gallery in Oslo to name a few institutions
