Colour lithograph, Hardy Strid, Composition, 1950s

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Colour lithograph, Hardy Strid, Composition, 1950s

Hardy Strid, Composition, 1950s
Colour lithograph
Number 46/200
Signed and individually numbered by the artist (in pencil)
Sheet dimensions 48/34
Framed

Hardy Bertil Roland Stridh lived from 1921 to 2012. He was born in Haverdal. 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 subsequently 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 shown at the Colour Lithography Biennale in Cincinnati in 1954, Zwanzig Westschwedische Maler in Lübeck in 1955, Ten Swdish Painter in Edinburgh, as well as at a number of Swedish group exhibitions in various locations 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 lattice. His art consists of still lifes, Cubist motifs, landscapes and figures executed in oils, watercolours, 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 establishment of the Drawing Museum in Laholm. His works can be seen at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Gothenburg Museum, the Kalmar Museum, the Norrköping Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum and Silkeborgs Museum.

Artwork in original vintage condition.