Goteborg Colorists
Active from 1930-1950 and working on the west coast of Sweden, the Goteborg Colorists were never an official group, only dubbed so after Axel Romdahl’s G`teborgskoloristerna, a book about the artists published in 1948, coined the term. What the Goteborg Colorists did have in common however was their great passion for color, using it as a vehicle to evoke emotion. Form became secondary to the overly sensual and exuberant palette of the Goteborg Colorists. The
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Goteborg Colorists
Active from 1930-1950 and working on the west coast of Sweden, the Goteborg Colorists were never an official group, only dubbed so after Axel Romdahl’s G`teborgskoloristerna, a book about the artists published in 1948, coined the term. What the Goteborg Colorists did have in common however was their great passion for color, using it as a vehicle to evoke emotion. Form became secondary to the overly sensual and exuberant palette of the Goteborg Colorists. The group’s work mainly consisted of landscapes that were an idyllic, new portrayal of the Swedish country. They included still-life and figural scenes as well; all with the same striking color palette. The Goteborg Colorists included Ivan Ivarson (1900-39), Ragnar Sandberg (1902-72), Inge Schioler (1908-71), Ake Goransson (1902-42) and Nils Nilsson (1901-49). Folke Andreasson (1902-48), Karin Parrow (1900-84), Waldemar Sjolander (1906-88) and Erling Arlingsson (1904-82) are often associated with the group. The Goteborg Colorists studied at the Valand Academy in Goteborg under the tutelage of the Academy’s director Tor Bjurstrom (1888-1966), who was extremely popular and admired by his pupils. A student of Henri Matisse and a member of the “Men of 1909”, Bjurstrom was heavily influenced by the Fauvists and this came across in his work. Other influences of the Goteborg Colorists include Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, and Pierre Bonnard as well as fellow Scandinavian artists Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Gosta Sandels (1887-1919), Carl Kylberg (1878-1952), and Karl Isaksson (1878-1922). The largest collection of Goteborg Colorists’ work is located at the Goteborg Museum of Art in Goteborg, Sweden.
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