Nils Kölare was a Swedish painter and graphic artist, educated at Konstfack in Stockholm 1953-57 and in mural painting at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Stockholm. His first solo exhibition took place at Konstsalongen Kavaletten in Uppsala in 1963. He painted still lifes, landscapes and interiors inspired by modern cubism and worked in constructive geometric non-figurative painting where colors and shapes became building blocks in what can be called pictorial symphonies.

"Nils Kölare was active in the constructive, geometric tradition, but he dissolved it. His paintings contain personal lyricism and poetry," wrote the well-known art writer Thomas Millroth.

In addition to a large number of paintings, he also cr...