Bertil Landelius (1912-1985), Swedish Modern Oil Painting, 1962

Modern oil landscape is by the swedish painter bertil landelius from 1962. The painting is hand-signed and dated in the lower right corner. Made in oil on panel. Sven bertil landelius, born in 1912 in malmö, died in 1985 in kristianstad, was a swedish painter and graphic artist. Bertil landelius focused early on becoming an artist. After graduating from high school in 1930, he continued his artistic studies in copenhagen and at the scanian school of painting in malmö. In 1931–1935 he attended the college of art in stockholm and graduated as a drawing teacher. However, in 1931 he made his debut in the great autumn salon of the skåne art association in malmö, where he would return for many years. From the spring of 1934, he also participated in several salons of the swedish association of general art in stockholm. He had his first individual exhibition in 1934 in lund at artists' group aura, to which he was elected a member in 1937. His art was first known in kristianstad in connection with a large exhibition in kristianstad in 1939. In addition to participating in several collective exhibitions, landelius then exhibited at various premises in kristianstad in 1951, 1954, 1958 and 1963. Last november, a larger retrospective exhibition was shown in the art galleries of the museum in tyghuset. After a long break, incl. As landelius was a teacher at the teachers college in kristianstad in 1962–1969, he returned with an exhibition in early 1977 at the museum. In stockholm, bertil landelius appeared in 1942 with his first individual exhibition at galleri gummeson and was met with very positive criticism. At dagens nyheter yngve berg described his exhibition as "one of the strangest, one of the young, international scandinavian painters shown in stockholm". Nils palmgren wrote in aftonbladet: “bertil landelius belongs to the young phalanx in scania's landscape painting, which has acquired a dark tone and broad, bold brushstrokes in contact with contemporary danish art.