BENGT ORUP. "PROCCXXI" Oil on canvas. Signed Orup.

54x45 cm.

Bengt Orup born in Lindesberg 1916. Lived and worked from 1941 until his death in 1996 in Domsten, just north of Helsingborg. Educated 1933-38 at Otte Sköld's painting school in Stockholm and the academies Grande Chaumièr and Colarossi in Paris. Orup was one of the pioneers of post-war modernism in Sweden. As early as 1946, he experimented with a pure, geometric world of form, which was linked to learning concrete. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he created series of concrete paintings with a refined, simple play between geometric shapes and strong contrasts. Bengt Orup was artistic director of Johansfors glassworks 1952-1962 and 1967-1973. In the intervening period, he was attached to Hyllinge Glasbruk in Skåne from 1963-1966. The glass came for periods to dominate his business. He designed everyday glasses, such as crockery, bowls, vases, carafes.