Colour lithograph, Hardy Strid, 1950s

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Colour lithograph, Hardy Strid, 1950s

Hardy Strid, 1950s
Colour lithograph
Number 58/84
The work is signed by the artist and marked with an individual number (pencil)
Sheet dimensions 70/50
The work is unframed

Hardy Bertil Roland Stridh was born on 6 July 1921 in Haverdal and died on 27 March 2012 in Halmstad. He was a Swedish painter, illustrator, graphic artist and glass artist. Stridh initially trained as a professional painter and studied easel painting. At the end of the 1930s, he experimented with paintings in the style of the Halmstad Group. He received instruction in drawing from Waldemar Lorentzon, Uno Liljegren and Bengt Berglund. He then undertook study trips to France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Morocco, as well as to England, where he created stained-glass windows for Tom Faers. His works were exhibited at the Colour Lithography Biennale in Cincinnati in 1954, Twenty West Swedish Painters in Lübeck in 1955, Ten Swedish Painters in Edinburgh, as well as at numerous Swedish group exhibitions in various venues and exhibitions organised by Hallands Konstförening and Halmstads Konstnärerlubb. For Folkets Hus in Halmstad, he created the monumental commission Gjuteriet, which was a moderately Cubist tempera painting with considerable depth. In Kortedala, in 1957, he created a large decorative exterior painting, and for Martin Luther Church in Halmstad he painted a series of window paintings. He painted three stained-glass windows for Skee Church, where he created a cross-shaped framework. His art consists of still lifes, Cubist motifs, landscapes and figures executed in oil, watercolour, gouache, tempera and several different graphic techniques, as well as enamel painting and sculptures in glass or marble. He was one of the initiators of the Museum of Drawing in Laholm. His works can be seen at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Gothenburg Museum, Kalmar Museum, Norrköping, Cincinnati Art Museum and Silkeborgs Museum.

Artwork in original vintage condition.