Hilding Linnqvist
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Doves and roses.
Signed HL with monogram and dated -60. Panel 48 x 40 cm.
Exhibitions
Konstmuseet Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, 2001.
More information
I ”Duvor och rosor” ser vi motiv som Hilding Linnqvist spenderade ett helt liv att skildra. Hilding Linnqvists konstnärsbana började redan i barndomsåren och tidigt tecknade han och målade med en frenesi som skulle hålla i sig hela livet. Utgångspunkten var redan från början studiet av naturen och han fann tidigt en fascination vid blommor vilket kan härledas till fadern som hade ett starkt intresse för botanik.
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.