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Olle Baertling

Olle Baertling (1911 - 1981) was active/lived in Sweden.  Olle Baertling is known for Geometric sculpture and modernist painting, landscapes.

Like Bengt Lindström, Olle Bærtling studied in Paris with André Lhote and Fernand Léger. He encountered influences from Mondrian, Kandinsky, Kasimir Malewitsch, Suprematism, Synthetism, Concretism, Neoplasticism and the Realist Manifesto.

*His first exhibition took place in Stockholm in 1949. He worked mainly in a geometric, non-figurative style and approached his art as the scientist does his research. Olle Bærtling came into contact with the organization Les Realités Nouvelles in 1950 and Galleri Denise René in Paris, at the same time as the great concretist August Herbin became his support and sponsor.

His first exhibition in Paris took place in 1953 and he quickly achieved worldwide fame. In 1952 he found his "open form", the open triangle with an acute angle that expresses speed. When in 1956 he placed the angle point outside the canvas, the image became a section of a sequence of events that takes place outside our field of vision. The speed is higher, it is   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4072 characters.]  Artist bio

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