Evert Lundquist Biography
Evert Lundquist (1904-1994) was a Swedish artist, born in Stockholm in 1904. He began painting at an early age and in 1925 he was accepted at the Royal University College of Fine Art. After years of study, he held his first exhibition in 1934 at the Konstnärshuset. But the real consecration will only come with the retrospective at the Stockholm Art Academy in 1944, which was Evert Lundquist's popular turning point. In fact, in the following decades he exhibited frequently in Stockholm and around Sweden.
He lived for long periods isolated in his studio and between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, he began to exhibit his works at an international level, participating in the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1957, at the Guggenheim International Award in New York in 1964, at the Dunn International at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Canada and at the Tate in London, with an exhibition intended to identify the one hundred best living artists in the world.
His exhibitions in London galleries were received with such enthusiasm that his works were purchased by several museums. However, he decides to withdraw from the international art market.
In 1974, the Moderna Museet celebrated him with a retrospective that summarized his multifaceted work, which had spanned five decades. In the early 1980s, Lundquist's vision began to deteriorate enough that he became less productive. His last painting is dated 1989. Over the years he meticulously documented his life and work which will be collected in his autobiography (From the Life of a Painter), published in 1984. He died in 1994.
