Hilding Linnqvist
Covered by droit de suite
Image rights
The artworks in this database are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the permission of the rights holders. The artworks are reproduced in this database with a license from Bildupphovsrätt.
For condition report contact specialist
"Innocentia"
Signed HL. Executed around 1933. Canvas 93 x 73 cm.
Provenance
Earlier in Eric Wennerholm's collection, hence by descent.
Exhibitions
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Hilding Linnqvist", October 1957, cat no 158.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, "Hilding Linnqvist", December 26, 1986 - February 22, 1987, cat no 52.
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, "Hilding Linnqvist", March 7 - May 10, 1987, cat no 52.
Literature
Bo Lagercrantz, "Hilding Linnqvist", 1986, illustrated p. 81 (incorrect dimensions).
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.