artist: Eric Olof Nilsson (Swedish 1888-1960)
medium: oil on canvas
dimensions: 34 x 45 cm canvas size / 42 x 54 cm frame size (approx)
signed and dated 1944
presented in its original frame
AU $1250 (approx US $780 / 745 EUROS / 123,000 yen / 620 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist biography
Eric Olof Nilsson was born November 11, 1888 in Lund. He was a Swedish painter, illustrator and and writer.
Nilsson studied with Bruno Hoppe in Malmö in 1908 and 1909, with Karl Kessler in Munich in 1910, with Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli in Dresden in 1911 and 1912 and with the Norwegian artist Carl Dørnberger in Rothenburg ob der Tauber in 1913 and 1914. He also took a number of private study trips in Europe including time in Austria, Italy and Czechoslovakia.
He exhibited is work in a group and solo exhibitions including one in Rothenburg in 1913 and a number of times in Lund. He exhibited in group exhibitions in Munich and exhibitions arranged by Skånes konstförening, Konstnärsgillet in Lund and Älmhults konstförening.
He painted cityscapes, still lifes portraits and landscapes done in watercolour, wax crayon and oil. As an illustrator he contributed to periodicals and newspapers including Sydsvenska dagbladet, Arbetet, Skånska Dagbladet, Strix, Lundagård, Dagens Nyheter and Folkets Tidning. Among his book illustrations are Mikaël Söderström's Gilbert Hardings resa and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow's Våra folkminnen.
As a writer he wrote under his own name or under the signature Rutger K.
He passed away in Lund at the age of 71 on April 28, 1960.