Einar Forseth - Artist Info

About Einar Forseth

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    Artist Einer Forseth was born in 1892 and passed away in 1988.

    In an excerpt from DN on May 7, 1915. Karl Asplund reviews the Konstföreningens spring exhibitions: "But the great surprise among the works of the young artists consists of three oil paintings by Einar Forseth. His name has been seen from time to time in somewhat dogmatic stylized pieces with a peculiarly shimmering color scale and something oddly rigid in the treatment. In the recent student exhibition at the academy, he aroused the horror of all the orthodox - what would happen to art when "cubism" had started to erode the very academy itself? At the Konstidkarnas lottery, his name was seen beneath a small floral painting with more than the usual warmth and depth...

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