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Nils Nilsson

Nils Nilsson (1901 - 1949) was active/lived in Sweden.  Nils Nilsson is known for Modernist figurative, portrait, landsape and still life painting.

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Many people perceive melancholy in Nils Nilsson's painting as an expression of his childhood experiences when he and his siblings were decoded to relatives in Gothenburg. It is possible that the uncertain upbringing colored his artistic activities, but in any case the feeling of loneliness and compassion for the abandoned man appears in several of his paintings.

Nils Nilsson belonged to the Gothenburg Colorists, which was expressed especially after his studies at Valand, when Karl Isakson's influence fades in still life and landscape. Later, the strong link to the painter colleagues is broken by his strong human presence in the compositions.

In 1935, Nils Nilson made his definitive breakthrough after a separate exhibition at the Swedish-French Art Gallery in Stockholm. He then lived in Malmö and was hired to carry out his first monumental painting, a fresco for the Higher General Educational Agency for Girls in Gothenburg.

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Facts about Nils Nilsson

   Nils Nilsson  Born:  1901
Died:   1949
Known for:  Modernist figurative, portrait, landsape and still life painting

Biography from Stockholm Auktionsverk

Many people perceive melancholy in Nils Nilsson's painting as an expression of his childhood experiences when he and his siblings were decoded to relatives in Gothenburg. It is possible that the uncertain upbringing colored his artistic activities, but in any case the feeling of loneliness and compassion for the abandoned man appears in several of his paintings.

Nils Nilsson belonged to the Gothenburg Colorists, which was expressed especially after his studies at Valand, when Karl Isakson's influence fades in still life and landscape. Later, the strong link to the painter colleagues is broken by his strong human presence in the compositions.

In 1935, Nils Nilson made his definitive breakthrough after a separate exhibition at the Swedish-French Art Gallery in Stockholm. He then lived in Malmö and was hired to carry out his first monumental painting, a fresco for the Higher General Educational Agency for Girls in Gothenburg.

In 1938 he moved to Gothenburg to take up the position as teacher and director of Valand's painting school. He held this position until 1947. During the 1940s, the painting is in a more bright and harmonious mood than in the previous decade, several of the paintings have features of colleague Ragnar Sandberg's refined colors.

He was a member of the artist-owned gallery Color and Form and in 1940 was one of the founders of the art magazine Paletten. Nilsson is represented at the Gothenburg Art Museum, the Kalmar Art Museum, the Modern Museum, the National Museum in Stockholm and the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo.


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