"Vårutsikt över Stockholm".
Signed with monogram HL and signed in pencil on verso. Oil on canvas 62 x 101 cm.
Provenance
Färg och Form, Stockholm.
The collection of Carl-Eric Björkegren.
Private Collection, Sweden.
Bukowski Auktioner, Stockholm, Modern Art + Design 620, 26 November 2019, lot 379.
Exhibitions
The Swedish Art Exhibition in Helsinki, 1945.
More information
As a chronicler of Stockholm, Hilding Linnqvist spans a rich register. The wealth and breadth of his depictions of the city are directly related to his choice of residences with expansive views over the ever-changing city throughout the seasons. In the 1920s, his combined studio and home was located at Kornhamnstorg, where he could observe the activities on the quays by Gamla Stan and Söder Mälarstrand. In the 1940s, the studio on Bastugatan became an unbeatable vantage point for an artist wanting to capture the impressive view towards Kungsholmen and Norr Mälarstrand. Later, his home in Gröndal presented new challenges and vistas. Throughout all hours of the day, Stockholm revealed everything that the Queen of Mälaren had to offer in terms of space and atmosphere, colour and life, for Hilding Linnqvist.
More about Hilding Linnqvist
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.
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