Ivan Lönnberg
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Ivan Lönnberg (12 November 1891, Stockholm - 26 April 1918, Cachy) was a Swedish modernist painter. In style he was close to the Swedish painters of his generation known as "De Unga "[1] ("The Young") which included Isaac Grünewald and Birger Simonsson.
Life and career
[edit]He studied art at a private school operated by Carl Wilhelmson. In 1912, he held an exhibition in Stockholm with two of his friends, Bertil Norén and Carl Herman Runnström .
He came to Paris in January 1914, where he became a part of a circle of Swedish painters on Montparnasse including Grünewald, Einar Jolin, and Eric Detthow . His also made friends with Nils Dardel and Nils Santesson .
After World War I broke out, he joined the French Foreign Legion. He was mortally wounded by a shot in his left eye at the Western Front in 1918,[1] the year the war ended.
Lönnberg was also a long-distance runner. He was part of Sweden's marathon team at the 1912 Summer Olympics,[2] but he and five of his teammates were unable to complete the race,[3] due to being made ill by the intense summer heat.[4]
His production was quite small. Roughly 50 works are known, including those from art school and several self-portraits.[4] Most of his paintings are at the Moderna museet in Stockholm. In a memorial exhibition in 1942, 48 of his works were shown.[1] There are several portraits of him made by his artist friends, such as Dardel.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Ivan Lönnberg in the Konstnärslexikonet Amanda
- ^ "Ivan Lönnberg". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
- ^ "Ivan Lönnberg Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 13 December 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ a b Sympatiens hemlighetsfulla makt, ed. Göran Söderström, p. 298 (Swedish)
External links
[edit] Media related to Ivan Lönnberg at Wikimedia Commons
- More works by Lönnberg @ ArtNet
- Ivan Lönnberg at Olympedia
- Ivan Lönnberg at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
- 1891 births
- 1918 deaths
- 20th-century Swedish painters
- Swedish male painters
- Modernism
- Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Swedish male long-distance runners
- Swedish male marathon runners
- Olympic athletes for Sweden
- Sportspeople from Stockholm
- French military personnel killed in World War I
- 20th-century Swedish male artists