Torhamn

With a small but delectable collection of art from the talented Torhamn family, Kolonn offers every art enthusiast something new to acquire for their own collection.
Gunnar Torhamn (1894-1965), who was married to fellow artist Ingegerd, was both a painter and a sculptor. As he is primarily associated with public art decoration today, it is particularly delightful that the theme includes a drawn sketch for a planned but never executed embellishment for Stockholm City Hall. Among other works, there are some irresistible watercolors with antique-style motifs from the 1920s, as well as a pleasant small-format oil painting.
Ingegerd Torhamn (1898-1994) was even more versatile, mastering painting, sculpture, and textile art. Notably, her hands created some very typical oil paintings with a lively play of geometric shapes in striking colors. Furthermore, her considerable talent is represented by a series of drawn works of ornamental geometry and sketches that clearly demonstrate her confident artistic skills.
Through their son Staffan, another artist was linked to the family through daughter-in-law Tina Torhamn (1947-2007), who was somewhat of a pioneering sculptor for her time. Her contribution to Kolonn's theme is a very intriguing concrete sculpture titled "Svårsmält" ("Hard to Digest"), which, in the year of its creation in 1975, was exhibited at the National Museum.