Owe Zerge - Still Life With Gloves And Scarf

Owe Zerge is a Swedish artist born in Kristianstad in 1894. Between 1914 and 1915, Zerge studied at the Althin school of painting in Stockholm. He then studied at the Royal Institute of Arts in Stockholm, where he took lessons from Olle Hjortzberg and Oscar Björck from 1915 to 1919. During the same period, he also attended Axel's engraving school Tallberg for a short time. He then made study trips to Italy and France, where he took classes with André Lhote. Zerge made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1921 and exhibited the following year at the Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm. He specialized in portraits, figure motifs, flowers and landscapes. In recent years his portraits have attracted attention; they are characterized by their sharpness and detail and are almost photographic. Owe Zerge is represented in several museums in Sweden, including the Gävle Museum, the Kristianstad Museum and the Tomelilla Museum.