Torsten Renqvist was active as a visual artist, sculptor and writer. He studied at Otte Skölds painting school, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1946 to 1948 and for Sven X:et Ericson at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1948 to 2050, followed study trips to the Netherlands, Germany, Paris and London, where he stayed in 1951–1952 as the British Council Scholarship. Renqvist was also a teacher at Valand in Gothenburg 1955-1958.

Primarily, Torsten Renqvist is known as neo-expressionist painter and wayward sculptor, often in wood, bronze or in a mixture of different materials, depicting people and animals with a personal expression. His painting shows his abstract and expressionist...