Fabian Lundqvist Swedish, 1913-1989
60 x 52 cm
Fabian Lundqvist (1913–1989) was a Swedish painter, sculptor and glass designer associated with the mid-twentieth-century Scandinavian modernist movement. He was born in Malmö, Sweden, and studied at the Skåne Painting School in 1946 under the German-Danish sculptor Harald Isenstein before travelling to Paris in 1948, where he continued his studies with the artists André Lhote and Jean Fautrier.
Lundqvist began exhibiting in 1944 at the Killbergs Art Salon in Helsingborg and later held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Sweden and abroad during the 1940s and 1950s. His work typically includes figurative compositions and landscapes, painted in oil, pastel and watercolour, often characterised by simplified forms and a restrained colour palette.
In 1958 he became a designer and artistic adviser at the Trelleborg and Alsterfors glassworks, expanding his practice into glass design and relief sculpture. Lundqvist’s work is represented in several Swedish public collections, including museums in Ystad and Malmö. He died in Malmö in 1989.