
Motifs from Gotland. approx. 97 x 211 cm.
Laris Strunke (1931—2020) was one of the most distinctive artists of Swedish modernism, an image maker with a deeply personal idiom in which the intensity of color, the rhythm of space and the physical presence of painting were at the center.
Born in Riga, he came as a 14-year-old refugee to Sweden during World War II, with his father, Latvian artist Niklāvs Strunke, and mother Olga. After studies at the Académie Libre in Stockholm and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1954—1959), where he had Ragnar Sandberg as his teacher and mentor, Strunke developed a painting characterized by both the rigor of form of modernism and an intuitive, emotional expression. He made his debut at the Swedish-French Art Gallery in 1959.
Strunke's painting moved constantly between extremes — from monumental formats with explosions of color applied with hands or rags, to low-key marker paintings inspired by Eastern calligraphy. Encounters with Chinese masters such as Tien Lung and working with ink became central to his late output. Even when vision almost completely disappeared, he continued to paint, driven by an unyielding will to see and understand beyond the visible.
Strunke was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts from 1987, received the Prince Eugen Medal in 2001, the Egron Lundgren Medal in 2002, and Latvia's highest civilian award, the Order of Three Stars, in 2003. His work is represented in several significant collections, including Moderna Museet, Gothenburg Museum of Art and the National Museum of Art of Latvia in Riga.
Lacks frame. Minor color loss at the top edge.
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Motifs from Gotland. approx. 97 x 211 cm.
Laris Strunke (1931—2020) was one of the most distinctive artists of Swedish modernism, an image maker with a deeply personal idiom in which the intensity of color, the rhythm of space and the physical presence of painting were at the center.
Born in Riga, he came as a 14-year-old refugee to Sweden during World War II, with his father, Latvian artist Niklāvs Strunke, and mother Olga. After studies at the Académie Libre in Stockholm and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1954—1959), where he had Ragnar Sandberg as his teacher and mentor, Strunke developed a painting characterized by both the rigor of form of modernism and an intuitive, emotional expression. He made his debut at the Swedish-French Art Gallery in 1959.
Strunke's painting moved constantly between extremes — from monumental formats with explosions of color applied with hands or rags, to low-key marker paintings inspired by Eastern calligraphy. Encounters with Chinese masters such as Tien Lung and working with ink became central to his late output. Even when vision almost completely disappeared, he continued to paint, driven by an unyielding will to see and understand beyond the visible.
Strunke was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts from 1987, received the Prince Eugen Medal in 2001, the Egron Lundgren Medal in 2002, and Latvia's highest civilian award, the Order of Three Stars, in 2003. His work is represented in several significant collections, including Moderna Museet, Gothenburg Museum of Art and the National Museum of Art of Latvia in Riga.
Lacks frame. Minor color loss at the top edge.
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