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Hilding Linnqvist

(Sweden, 1891-1984)
Hilding Linnqvist
(Sweden, 1891-1984)

Hilding Linnqvist, oil on panel, signed HL. Executed 1922.

"Trädgård, Sienna". 100 x 67,5 cm.

Dry cracks upper edge, one in lower margin. Wear due to age along edges of the work, under the frame. Surface dirt.

Provenance

Fritz Reutersvärd's collection.

Exhibitions

Konstakademien, Stockholm, "Hilding Linnqvist", exhibition arranged by Föreningen för nutida konst, 9 March - 7 April 1940, cat no. 88.

More information

"På resa, det är enkelt - men också mångtydigt!
Jag är på resan och jag vill fortsätta min resa.
Jag befinner mig ständigt på resa.
I världen, i mitt eget land - ja, i min egen kammare!
Jag reser i min inbillning - i nattlig klarhet, i mina dagdrömmar
och i fullaste solljus."

Orden är Hilding Linnqvists och han var onekligen en flitig resenär, både i tanken och verkligheten. Hans måleri under 1920-talet präglades av de många utlandsvistelser han genomförde. År 1920 begav han sig på en resa genom Europa som skulle pågå i tre år, färden gick över Nordsjön via England till Frankrike och Italien. Några av Hilding Linnqvists främsta verk tillkom under denna period, däribland "Torget i Chinon" från 1921, idag i Moderna Museets samlingar.

I september 1922 befann sig Hilding Linnqvist i Assisi och skrev därifrån i ett brev till vännen Gunnar Björkman. ”Jag fortsätter över Perugra till Sienna. Där blir jag väl en tid. Eventuellt stannar jag där och arbetar. Min adress tills vidare till Villa Coltaccio. S. Silvestro per Castello Firenze. För vidare retur. Jag har varit en månad vid Numana tillsammas med Fjatte (Fritiof Schüldt), Nisse (Axel Nilsson) o. fam. Börje (Gideon Börje). Sköna bad”.

Hilding stannade mycket riktigt och målade i Sienna där han kom att utföra en serie målningar av skördearbetet i omgivningen. I auktionens ”Landskap, Sienna” som är målad vid denna vistelse har Linnqvist avbildat fikonplockare och han låter det toscanska landskapet sträcka ut sig i bakgrunden.

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.

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