artist: Torolf Engström (Swedish 1909-1987)
medium: enamel on plate
dimensions: 35 x 35 cm
signed and dated -75
* noted verso 'For Hotel Continental' (Stockholm)
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artist biography
Ernst Torolf Agnar Engström was born April 10, 1909 in Stockholm. He was a Swedish artist, best known for his sculptures.
Torolf Engström studied at the Tekniska skolan in Stockholm, at the Maison Watteau in Paris and in Germany. Early in his career he worked in a rustic, realistic style and made portrait sculptures and reliefs.
From the 1950s, his sculptures became abstract and non-figurative. Aspiring steel rods at different heights are a theme he worked with, a nice example is the fountain at Stadsteatern in Schweinfurt in Germany created in 1966.
He exhibited regularly throughout his career, first exhibiting in a group exhibition in 1931 and continuing throughout his career. Select exhibitions include De unga on Vasagatan in Stockholm in 1943, in Borås in 1947 and at Lorensberg's art salon in Gothenburg in 1948. He created numerous public artworks including relief gates at the State Historical Museum in Stockholm, alter relief in Karlskoga in 1946, 13 niche figures in Essinge church in Stockholm, Livsbåten (Lifeboat) bronze sculpture at Danderyds cemetary, Fotbollsspelande pojkar bronze sculpture in at the Educational Institute in Ludvika.
Engström is represented in a number of public collections including the National Museum in Stockholm.
He passed away in 1987 in Stockholm.