Stig Danielson

Galleri Engström, Stockholm.

Stig Danielson was a Swedish artist. He studied at Pernby’s Painting School in 1953 and The Royal Institute of Art from 1960 – 1965. He is best known for depicting the intimate and universal aspects of situations of marginalization in his images. His projects document the lives of clochards in Paris during the 1950s and 60s, bullfighters in Spain in the 1960s, prostitutes in Stockholm in the 1970s, AIDS patients in the 1980s, the dignity of the elderly in long-term care in 1985, and people fleeing war in Afghanistan.
Danielson's work is marked by sharp criticism of the structures that create exclusion, as well as the oppressive exercise of religion or state power. Alongside these themes, he also painted flowers, still lifes, and idyllic scenes often connected to his upbringing in Saltsjöbaden. Danielson held around thirty solo exhibitions and participated in about ten group exhibitions, including the Women's Culture Festival in the Swedish Parliament in 1977, featuring works by 95 female artists and one man. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, his works also toured former East Germany and the Soviet Union.
Danielson's works are represented in several museums, including Moderna Museet.