Erik Olson
Subtitle: arbeten på papper 1927-1933
By: text: Viveka Bosson
Contributors: Bosson, Viveka, 1930-; Galerie Bel'Art
Publisher: Galerie Bel'Art
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: swe
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9789197679763
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: Erik Olson was born in 1901 in Halmstad, Sweden. He grows into adulthood in a seafaring family, later his father becomes an engineer. In 1915 he creates the group Gnistan, together with his brother Axel Olson and his cousin Waldemar Lorentzon. He had his debut at an amateur exhibition in Halmstad in 1919 and is discovered by the collector Egon Östlund who then mediates contact to the artist Gösta Adrian Nilsson (GAN). In the year 1924, Erik Olson goes to Paris together with his cousin Waldenmar Lorentzon. They become pupils in the Modern Art Academie of Fernand Léger, a school with a spirit of Cubism. Erik Olson becomes close friend to the fellow students Otto G. Carlsund and Franciska Clausen. They all learn by Léger how to create their paintings architecturally with clean and clear colors. Exhibition: Galerie Bel'Art, Stockholm, Sweden (20.10.-17.11.2018).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Galerie Bel'Art, October 20-November 17, 2018.

Limited edition of 400 numbered copies.