artist: Gustaf Höglund (Swedish 1910-1994)
medium: oil on canvas
dimensions: 40 x 64cm canvas size / 42 x 66 cm frame size (approx)
signed
dated 1957 on verso
presented in a new off white painted timber frame
AU $1425 (approx US $980 / 975 EUROS / 136,000 yen / 840 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist biography
Karl Gustaf Höglund was born February 3, 1910 in Gävle. He was a Swedish painter.
Höglund received his initial art education from Nils Breitholtz in Gävle between 1925 and 1930. Along with fellow artists Karl-Gustaf Holmqvist, Bengt Eklund and Bertil Lundqvist, Höglundestablished a studio in the old YMCA building in Gävle in 1926. There they arranged evening courses in sketch drawing classes with live models twice a week. Joint exhibitions were often organised in the studio and after a few years the small circle of friends began to be called the Brynäsgruppen. Höglund continued his art studies at Edvin Oller’s målarskola (painting school) in Stockholm 1939 and 1940, and at Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Académie Julian in Paris in 1949.
He exhibited at numerous galleries throughout his career including the Gävle art gallery, Gästrike-Hälsingland nation in Uppsala and Galerie Moderne in Stockholm. He participated in group exhibitions with Brynäsgruppen and in collective exhibitions with Gävleborg konstförening (art association).
He painted still lifes, portraits, cityscapes, interiors and landscapes and figurative works in oil, pastel , tempera and watercolour
. Höglund is represented in the collection at the Gävle Museum.
Höglund was married to artist Maj Norén (1926-2006). He passed away at the age of 84 in Stockholm on December 17, 1994.