Hilding Linnqvist
"Disa drömmer" (Disa is dreaming)
Executed 1954-56. Panel 310 x 365 cm.
Provenance
Ordered by AB Bendix, Josephson & Co, Stockholm.
Märta Delin-Linnqvist, Stockholm.
Svenska Tobaksbolaget AB (Swedish Match AB), Stockholm, since 1988.
Exhibitions
Liljevalchs konsthall (arranged together with Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening), Stockholm, "Hilding Linnqvist", catalogue 228, October 1957, cat No 324, reproduced on cover.
Literature
Bo Lagercrantz, "Hilding Linnqvist, described page 110-116, reproduced full page 115.
More information
Certificate of authenticity issued by Märta Delin-Linnqvist, dated 22 December 1988 included.
Designer
Hilding Linnqvist is one of Sweden's most important naïve painters and became established and known early on for his colourful compositions. Linnqvist was a key figure in lyrical naivism in Sweden, with a style of painting that departed from the technical perfection he had been trained in. Several Swedish artists joined this innovative direction for the time. After studying at the Technical School and the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, he was inspired by Edward Munch and Ernst Josephson's malaise art, which led him towards a freer and more uninhibited style of painting. During the 1920s, Linnqvist travelled abroad several times and his colours became brighter and his subjects more detailed.
He later painted coastal scenes and portraits, among other things. By the early 1940s, Hilding Linnqvist was an established and well-travelled artist, as well as a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1939-1941 and the subject of a major exhibition there in 1940.