LAGE LINDELL. Spring landscape, pastel on panel, signed.

Visible image area 28 x 40 cm. Frame dimensions 61 x 70 cm.

Lage Johannes Lindell was a Swedish artist born on May 12, 1920, in Stockholm and died on March 15, 1980, in the same city. He was primarily known as a painter and draftsman who made significant contributions to the Swedish art scene during the second half of the 20th century.

After completing his student examination in 1938, Lage Lindell began studying modern languages at Stockholm University, but later interrupted his studies to follow his passion for art. He continued his education at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, where he was active between 1941 and 1946. During his artistic journey, he received the Ester Lindahl scholarship in 1945, which enabled a study trip to Denmark. Later, in 1954, he received a scholarship from H Ax:son-Johnson, which was used for study trips to Spain and North Africa.

Lindell debuted as an artist in 1947 with cubist paintings inspired by the environments of Hagalund. During the 1950s, he developed an increasingly abstract style with a reduced color spectrum. During the 1960s, his painting became more playful and colorful, and he created free, floating color forms that were sometimes associated with human figures rather than geometric patterns.

Lindell also had significant public works, including a mosaic wall in the court building in Sundsvall (1954), an enamel painting in Västerås City Hall (1960), and a mural in Solna City Hall (1965). He also worked with acrylic decorations on concrete at Umeå University during the period 1970-1972 and created a large mural known as the "Umeå wall".

Together with artists such as Lennart Rodhe, Olle Bonniér, Pierre Olofsson, and Karl Axel Pehrson, Lage Lindell helped create wall decorations for Astra in Södertälje in 1956. His art is represented in several art museums, including the Nationalmuseum, the National Gallery in Oslo, Norrköping Art Museum, and the Archive of Decorative Art in Lund. He also used graphic techniques such as silk-screen printing, where he used a limited color scale or black and white to create his works.

Lage Lindell had a distinctive artistic journey that stretched from cubist motifs to abstract landscape painting and later to playful and colorful compositions. He viewed art as a way to communicate and constantly sought the right form of expression. His work was characterized by a balance between abstraction and figurative art, and he explored various techniques and materials to convey his message.