The Sailor

Nice little oil on panel by the Swedish artist Kurt Jungstedt. The work is in very good condition. Signed lower right KURT JUNGSTEDT 1894 - 1963 Painter Kurt Jungstedt was the son of the film director Emil Linden and the opera singer Matilda Jungstedt. He studied at the technical school in 1909 and at the Wilhelmson painting school in 1911-1914 as well as with Henrik Sørensen and Oluf Wold-Torne in Oslo in 1915-1916. He lived in Copenhagen from 1917 to 1919 and experimented with cubism there. During the 1920s he also stayed occasionally in Paris. Kurt Jungstedt first became known as a decorator on the ships M/S Kungsholm (1928) and M/S Drottningholm (1929), the latter realistic hunting scenes on a silver background, and for the Valandhuset in Gothenburg (1932). Kurt Jungstedt illustrated about thirty books. Among others, he is represented at the National Museum, Moderna Museet, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Skokloster Castle, Gothenburg University Library, Norrköping Museum of Art, Statens für Kunst in Copenhagen and the National Gallery in Oslo. He was a talented illustrator and illustrated, among others, Heidenstam's Carolines, Voltaire's Candide, Esaias Tegnér's Frithiof saga, Evert Taube's songs, eleven works by Zola, as well as other Swedish and French classics. Kurt Jungstedt married Margeret Eastman Sawyer in 1920 and had a daughter Matilda in 1922, who married Guy von Dardel. Although he is best known for his book illustrations, including Wallenberg's My son på galejan, and his drawings, he is also known as a childhood friend of Evert Taube. From his apartment in Johan Skytte's house, the same apartment that Anders Zorn previously had as a studio and which Taube later had to take over after Jungstedt's death, with a view of Skeppsbron and the old town, he painted several oil paintings in a lighter form. of cubism Style: Swedish school around 1950 Condition: very good condition Technique: Oil on panel Other: Signed lower right Height: 19 cm Width: 23 cm Dimensions with frame: 30/34 cm Shipping: 25 euros Work guaranteed authentic, sold with invoice, certificate issued on request.