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Rune Jansson

Rune Jansson (1918 - 2014) was active/lived in Sweden.  Rune Jansson is known for Painting.

Rune Jansson was born in 1918 in Sweden.

Swedish painter, graphic artist and writer Rune Jansson grew up on Blidö in the Stockholm archipelago.  With fantastic expanses outside the window, Jansson was early inspired by the power and colors of nature and felt a strong drive to recreate this through his art.

In 1941 he started at Otte Sköld's painting school in Stockholm, leaving behind agriculture, fishing and carpentry work at Blidö.  The studies then continued at the Stockholm School of Art and he debuted for the Swedish audience at the Lilla Paviljongen in 1949.

The barren archipelago with knotty pine trees, round-cut mountains and icy blue seas is the very center of Rune Jansson's visual world.  Water lines moving towards the horizon are commonly found on his canvases, often changing in color and contrasting with musty tones in orange, green, red or yellow. 

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