artist: Sture Svenson (Swedish 1913-1976)
medium: oil on canvas
dimensions: 45 x 37 cm canvas size (approx) / 55 x 47 cm frame size (approx)
signed
circa 1950s/60s
presented in its original frame
AU $1425 (approx US $905 / 865 EUROS / 137,500 yen / 720 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist biography
Arthur Sture Birger Svenson was born April 1, 1913 in Stockholm. He was a Swedish painter and illustrator.
Svenson was originally museum assistant at a number of Swedish institutions including the Stockholm City Museum, the County Museum Gävleborg, the Norrbotten Museum in Luleå and the Östersund City Museum. As an artist he was primarily self taught apart from time studying at Barths målarskola (Signe Barth's painting school).
He had his first solo exhibition at Färg and Form in 1952 and was one of the first Swedish cubists. The exhibition was followed by solo exhibitions in Norrköping, at the Konstnärshuset in Stockholm and the Lorensberg art gallery. Alongside Erik Jensen an dLars Stenstad he exhibited in Ronneby, and with Elsie Dahlberg-Sundborg in Vällingby. Together with Signe Barth and Holger Gardelius he formed a group that exhibited at a number of locations including galleries in Oskarshamn, Skellefteå, Kalix and Motala.
He was featured in a number of Sveriges allmänna konstförening (Swedish General Art Association) exhibitions in Stockholm beginning in1941, and the Svenska konstnärernas förenings (Swedish Artists' Association) exhibitions during the 1950s and 1960s, and in the Stockholm Salon at Liljevalchs konsthall in 1962.
He was awarded a scholarship from the Svenska konstnärernas förenings and the Kungafonden (King's Fund) in 1958 and a state work scholarship in 1963 and a major state travel scholarship in 1964.
Svenson is best known for his still life works, landscapes, urban scenes and portraits, often with a strong abstraction. He designed some church items in silver and select public artworks include a piece in iron for Huvudsta Church. As illustrator he produced work for books including Estlander-Ander-Löfqvist Allmänna historien i berättelser and a variety of book illustrations for other writers. Examples of Svenson’s work is held in the collections of the at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Solna Municipality collection.
He passed away on July 17, 1976.