Ulf Peter Gustav Trotzig, born June 11, 1925 in Föllinge, Jämtland, died October 19, 2013 in Lund, was a Swedish painter, illustrator and graphic artist.

After graduating in Kristianstad in 1945, he studied art for Nils Nilsson and Endre Nemes at Valand Art Academy 1946-1951. In the summer of 1951 he went on a long study trip to Spain and France to study Romanesque visual art and during the winter he stayed in Paris where he studied sculpture for Ossip Zadkine.

He then returned to Gothenburg and after a few years of activity there, she traveled to Paris in 1954 to study graphics for Johnny Friedlaender. He settled in San Gimignano Italy in the spring of 1954 to study Italian fresco art. He settled with his wife in Villers-le-Bel in the autumn of 1955.

He has exhibited separately in Kristianstad in 1953, Museo d´Arte Moderna in São Paulo in 1957, SDS-hallen in Malmö, Gummesons konsthall, Galerie Gammel Strand in Copenhagen, Malmö museum and Galerie Burén in Stockholm. Together with Barbro Bråne he exhibited in Värnamo and together with Sérvulo Esmeraldo

He participated in the graphics biennial in Ljubljana, the Decembrists' exhibition in Copenhagen, the artist group Active paint exhibitions at Galerie Blanche in Stockholm, Skåne Art Association's autumn exhibitions, Gothenburg Art Association's December exhibitions, Kristianstad Art Association's spring salons and from 1959 he belonged to Paris.

He was represented in a traveling exhibition with Swedish graphics that was shown in several American cities in 1960, the Nordic Graphics Union's exhibition at Liljevalch's Art Gallery and the Graphic Society's exhibition in Hamburg and a traveling exhibition with four European artists shown in Brazil in 1962. 1954, Ellen Trotzig's scholarship in 1956, Föreningen Graphica's prize in 1959, Skåne Art Association's scholarship in 1959 and together with his wife he was awarded the Kristianstad County Council's cultural scholarship in 1965. decoration at Lund Central Station.

Trotzig was the son of the provincial doctor Ragnar Carl Emil Trotzig and the physiotherapist Ragni Sophie Hauff and the brother of the archaeologist Gustaf Trotzig and married to the author Birgitta Trotzig, born Kjellén, from 1949 until her death in 2011. The authors Elisabeth Rynell and Astrid Trotzig are his nephews.

Trotzig is represented at Nationalmuseum, Moderna museet Göteborgs konstmuseum, Malmö konstmuseum, Norrköpings konstmuseum, Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Kalmar konstmuseum, Regionmuseet Kristianstad, Östergötlands länsmuseum, Sundsvalls museum, Skövde museum, Hallands konstmuseum, Helsingborgs museum, Ystads konstmuseum, Århus museum, Lunds universitets konstmuseum, Museo de l´Università Cetreo i Brasilien, och med böcker vid The Congress of Library, Bibliotheque Nationale, Indian Gallery, New Delhi, India, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama, Kamakura, Japan and the Rasjö Collection at VIDA Art Museum, Öland. In 2005, Trotzighallen was inaugurated at VIDA Art Museum, Öland.

Ulf Trotzig is buried in Norra kyrkogården in Lund.

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Ulf Trotzig, an important Swedish painter, produced around ten works in sandstone between 1964 and 1965; most of them being public commissions (eg Lycée de Lund in Sweden).

The artist executed them in a pottery workshop in Villenauxe-la-Grande in Aube (France), possibly at Jean Tessier's. We thank her daughter for the information she shared with us about this composition.