PETER FREUDENTHAL. Colour series, signed, numbered 77/100, 1980.

Frame dimensions 61 x 50 cm.

Peter Max Freudenthal (born 6 July 1938 in Norrköping) is a Swedish painter and graphic artist. He studied art, art history, archaeology and ethnography at Stockholm University. In 1962, he worked as an archaeologist in northern Sudan, where the local architecture inspired him for his first abstract paintings.

Freudenthal made his debut in Stockholm in 1966 and has exhibited his art both in the United States and in various places in Europe. He prefers to describe his art style, which is commonly referred to as constructivism, as geometric abstraction. Some of his motifs draw inspiration from the Jewish tradition, and his works have been described as “musical”. In 2002 he exhibited together with Einar Höste and Lars Englund at Lunds konsthall. Freudenthal was awarded the Östgöta Art Society's scholarship in 2012.

His art is represented at several prominent institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Nationalmuseum, Moderna museet, The Jewish Museum in New York, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Norrköping Art Museum, Kalmar Art Museum, Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Halland Museum of Cultural History, Östergötland Museum and Örebro County Council.