Hilding Gunnar Oskar Linnqvist, born April 20, 1891 in Stockholm, died Sept. 30, 1984 in Stockholm; Swedish artist and professor. Hilding Linnqvist studied at the Technical School and the Academy of Arts from 1910 to 1912. His free way of working inspired by the study of Edvard Munch, Ernst Josephsons disease arts and Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's view that the style should be subordinate to and emerge from the subject as we can see by his Self-Portrait (1913, Gothenburg Museum of Art), executed in rapid , loose brush strokes. At the same time he experimented with cubism and influenced by the works of André Lhote. In 1917 Linnqvist painted a mural on the Institute of Technology in Stockholm and was co-founder of a group of artists together with Axel Nilsson, Fritiof Schüldt Alf Munthe and Victor Axelsson, who was active until 1923. The same year, 1917, he moved into his first studio Rörstrandsgatan. To the north lay Karlberg with the magical and romantic view of Karlberg Castle at Clear Lake and he created in 1917-1918 some fine lyrical and naive Karlberg Pictures, for example, Clear Lake (National Museum), View of Karlberg in (Charles Nilssons collection), as well as views of Karlberg castle, Stockholm (privately owned). With simple means Linnqvist captured the idyllic atmosphere in the city outskirts by borrowing from both folk art and church painting in earlier times (for example parhelion the Great Church, Stockholm). Linnqvist is considered a naive realist and has been referred to as a lyric naivist. He had a penchant for fringe subjects, and especially Stockholm suburbs. Linnqvist depicted the emerging industrialization where the city grows and grind small town. Linnqvist painted periphery and provincial areas around Stockholm. In the 1920s combined his studio and residence at Kornhamnstorg, where he could follow what was happening on the quays of the Old Town and the Södermälarstrand.... (Google translation https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilding_Linnqvist) undefined

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