Ragnar Person

Ragnar Person was a Swedish artist. Best known as a painter of everyday life in Småland and loved by many through his popular motifs. Ragnar Person was actually a bricklayer, but as a painter he discovered the artist's freedom. He came in contact with Halmstadgruppen and started painting in a Cubist spirit.
After studying in Paris, he was influenced by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot's moist landscape painting, which gave him the courage to paint what he himself liked - everyday life at home in Småland. He developed a color romantic and expressionist painting.

Many of the motifs behind Ragnar Person's paintings are taken from the community Angelstad, where the artist grew up. He had a nostalgic relationship with the place and the different environments and felt a sense of belonging to the area and the population.
In Ragnar Person's motifs, the people are portrayed in an intimate and personal way.

Ragnar Person was a student of Esaias Thorén and Waldemar Lorentzon and was influenced early on by Halmstadgruppen's expression, but Ragnar Person developed over time into a Nordic expressionist and towards the end of his art, his paintings received impressionistic features.

Ragnar Persons distinguishes his painting with diffuse details and brushstrokes, where his motifs appear in a white hazy light almost in a glow of silver.

He seldom paints the details, the viewer himself must contribute and shape his own image, based on individual experiences and memories.
His motifs can be seen as vague memories of our Nordic folk life with motifs from festivals, auctions, working farmers and as in the auction catalog number; a sunset over a courtyard with people gathered, during the last sunny hours of the day.