"Kampen för tillvaron"
Signed Eric and dated 19. Executed in Dresden. Chalk on paper 57.5 x 39.5 cm.
Significant creases and paper damage. Not examined out of frame.
Provenance
Gallery Claes Moser
Exhibitions
Karby Gård, Täby, 2006, cat. no. 34.
Fahlnaes Konsthandel, Göteborg, "100 år av svensk modernism 1909-2009", 2009.
Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, "Drömrummet - Om samlandets passion", 6 June - 4 September 2011, cat. no. 9.
Galleri Claes Moser och Eksjö Museum, Eksjö, "Eric Johansson (1896-1979: revolutionär expressionist", 23 May - 6 September 2015, cat. no. 21.
More information
Eric Johansson was a Swedish artist born in Dresden in 1896. He grew up with German foster parents and became part of the German Expressionist art scene. Because of his communist involvement and his Jewish wife, he was persecuted by the Nazis. He was imprisoned after making a remark about Hermann Göring but later managed to escape to Sweden, where he spent the rest of his life.
Johansson became the only Swede whose works were shown at the Nazi exhibition Entartete Kunst exhibition alongside artists such as Oskar Kokoschka and Wassily Kandinsky. Many of his artworks were destroyed by the Nazis, but some survived and remain important examples of his work.
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