Hilding Linnqvist
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"Höst"
Signed H.L. Executed around 1918-19. Panel 27 x 41.5 cm.
Provenance
Publisher Folke Isacson, Gothenburg.
Then by descent to present owner.
Exhibitions
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm.
Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, "Hilding Linnqvist", 1957, catalogue no. 34.
Konsthallen Göteborg, "Ur Sigrid och Folke Isacsons samling", 25 February - 27 March 1967, catalogue no. 78.
Vandringsutställningen "Schwedische Kunst des 20 Jarhunderts", Münvhen/FRanfurt/M., Duisburg, Mannheim u. Kiel, May-November 1967, catalogue no. 103.
Literature
Konsthallen Göteborg, "Ur Sigrid och Folke Isacsons samling", 25 February - 27 March 1967, catalogue no. 78, ill. in the exhibition catalogue.
More information
Motivet inspirerat av Ludvika herrgård.
Jaså, har du kommit över den", sa Linkan då jag talade om för honom att jag förvärvat tavlan på en auktion. "Den lär ju tillhöra min bästa period" - och så såg han lite underfundigt på mig. Han kanske överdrev, men jag ville inte motsäga honom." Konsthallen Göteborg, "Ur Sigrid och Folke Isacsons samling", 25 februari - 27 mars 1967, kat nr 78.
Artist
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.
