ROLAND ALF. ROLAND ALF (1929-2020): Tree of Life, signed and dated alf 1969, plaster on wooden plate.

Approx 60x120 cm HISTORY: Roland Alf was born in 1929 in Högalid, Stockholm and died on May 2, 2020 in Hässelby strand.
Alf started at Konstfack in Stockholm in 1949 with a specialization in Decorative Painting, he then switched to Sculpture.
The studies then continued at the Stockholm City Vocational School for painters and study circles for sketching. Between the years 1948-50, Roland Alf was employed at the Oscar Theater as a theater painter. In the last years of his professional life, he was involved in restoring paintings in churches and in gates/entrances at Östermalm. Roland Alf worked in different techniques and materials such as oil on canvas, plaster, wood and clay.