Karl Axel Pehrson - Artist Info

About Karl Axel Pehrson

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    Karl Axel Pehrson 1921-2005, Karl Axel Pehrson's debut came with the 1947 men's group exhibition Young Art at Galleri Färg och Form at Brunkebergstorg in Stockholm. This exhibition has been described as the most important for the breakthrough of concrete art in Sweden and, in addition to Karl Axel Pehrson, showed works by Lage Lindell, Olle Bonniér, Lennart Rodhe and Pierre Olofsson, among others. In April 1954, Karl Axel Pehrson held his first solo exhibition when Galerie Blanche showed his paintings, watercolours and sculptures. Over the years, his style and motifs found new ways and developed from playful still lifes in the 1940s to a few years of concretism, finally presenting detailed fantasy landscapes with elements of realism. Over t...

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