artist: Folke Skoghäll (Swedish 1921-1998)
medium: oil on canvas
dimensions: 40 x 50 cm canvas size / 51 x 61 cm frame size (approx)
signed
circa 1950s/60s
* 3 September, 2026 - currently being framed new off white painted inner liner frame and hand finished timber outer frame - due back at the gallery mid September, 2026. Photos to follow. If purchased in the meantime we will fulfil your order as soon as it is back from our framing workshop.
AU $1475 (approx US $1060 / 910 EUROS / 166,000 yen / 785 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)
artist biography
Carl David Folke Skoghäll was born 21 February 1921 in Åmål . He was a Swedish painter, print maker, and art teacher.
Skoghäll studied at the Tekniska skolan in Stockholm from 1941 to 1945 where he graduated from its Higher Industrial Arts Department as a drawing teacher. He then continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts School in Helsinki from 1946 to 1948 and with André Lhote in Paris in 1949.
He exhibitied in solo shows a number of cities including exhibitions in Kristinehamn and Karlstad. He showed alongside Anders Hellsten and Valter Holmström at Värmland Museum in 1948. He regularly participated in group exhibitions including numerous shows beginning in the late 1940s with the Värmland Art Society's salons in Karlstad, and from 1952 in the Örebro County Art Society's Länets konst in Örebro and the Stockholm salons at Liljevalchs konsthall in 1962–1963. He was represented in a traveling exhibition of Närkekonst that was shown in Dortmund, Essen, Düsseldorf and Hagen in 1959.
He cereated public commission artworks during his career including are a facade enamel work in Kumla, a wall relief in iron sheet and enamel for Vialundskolan in Kumla.
He initiallyworked in a realistic style but around 1950 he switched to an expressive post-cubist painting style. As a print maker his editions often had a circus or music motif. In addition to his fine art practice, he worked as a drawing teacher at the upper secondary school in Kumla.
Skoghäll is represented in numerous collections including the Statens konstråd (Swedish National Art Council), Värmland Museum, Örebro County Museum, Institut Tessin in Paris, Örebro County Council, Värmland County Council, Stockholm Municipality and Örebro Municipality.
Skoghäll passed away in 1998.