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1905 - 1993. Known for: Folk art painting, abstract figures.
Ragnar Person was a Swedish visual artist. Best known as a folk painter and loved by many through his folk motifs. Was actually a bricklayer, but as a "goose" painter he discovered the artist's... Read full biography
Ragnar Person was a Swedish visual artist. Best known as a folk painter and loved by many through his folk motifs. Was actually a bricklayer, but as a "goose" painter he discovered the artist's freedom. Got in touch with the Halmstad group and first started painting in a cubist spirit. After... Read full biography
Ragnar Person was a Swedish visual artist. Best known as a folk painter and loved by many through his folk motifs. Was actually a bricklayer, but as a "goose" painter he discovered the artist's freedom. Got in touch with the Halmstad group and first started painting in a cubist spirit. After studying in Paris, he was influenced by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot's moist landscape painting, which gave him the courage to paint what he himself liked - the life of the people at home in Småland. He... Read full biography
Ragnar Person was a Swedish visual artist. Best known as a folk painter and loved by many through his folk motifs. Was actually a bricklayer, but as a "goose" painter he discovered the artist's freedom. Got in touch with the Halmstad group and first started painting in a cubist spirit. After studying in Paris, he was influenced by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot's moist landscape painting, which gave him the courage to paint what he himself liked - the life of the people at home in Småland. He developed a color romantic and expressionist painting. Many of the motifs for Ragnar Person's paintings are taken from Angelstad, the parish of Småland where the artist grew up. He had a nostalgic relationship with the place and the different... Read full biography
Ragnar Person was a Swedish visual artist. Best known as a folk painter and loved by many through his folk motifs. Was actually a bricklayer, but as a "goose" painter he discovered the artist's freedom. Got in touch with the Halmstad group and first started painting in a cubist spirit. After studying in Paris, he was influenced by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot's moist landscape painting, which gave him the courage to paint what he himself liked - the life of the people at home in Småland. He developed a color romantic and expressionist painting. Many of the motifs for Ragnar Person's paintings are taken from Angelstad, the parish of Småland where the artist grew up. He had a nostalgic relationship with the place and the different environments and felt a sense of belonging to the area and the population. In Ragnar Person's motifs, the people are portrayed in an... Read full biography
