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Ivan Lönnberg (12 November 1891, Stockholm - 26 April 1918, Cachy) was a Swedish modernist painter. In style he was close to the Swedish painters of his generation known as "De Unga [sv]"[1] ("The Young") which included Isaac Grünewald and Birger Simonsson.

Life and career

He studied art at a private school operated by Carl Wilhelmson. In 1912, he held an exhibition in Stockholm with two of his friends, Bertil Norén [sv] and Carl Herman Runnström [sv].

He came to Paris in January 1914, where he became a part of a circle of Swedish painters on Montparnasse including Grünewald, Einar Jolin, and Eric Detthow [sv]. His also made friends with Nils Dardel and Nils Santesson [sv].

After World War I broke out, he joined the French Foreign Legion. He was mortally wounded by a shot in his left eye at the Western Front in 1918,[1] the year the war ended.

Lönnberg was also a long-distance runner. He was part of Sweden's marathon team at the 1912 Summer Olympics,[2] but he and five of his teammates were unable to complete the race,[3] due to being made ill by the intense summer heat.[4]

His production was quite small. Roughly 50 works are known, including those from art school and several self-portraits.[4] Most of his paintings are at the Moderna museet in Stockholm. In a memorial exhibition in 1942, 48 of his works were shown.[1] There are several portraits of him made by his artist friends, such as Dardel.

References

External links

Media related to Ivan Lönnberg at Wikimedia Commons

• More works by Lönnberg @ ArtNet
• Ivan Lönnberg at Olympedia
• Ivan Lönnberg at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)

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[de] Ivan Lönnberg

Ivan Lönnberg (* 12. November 1891 in Stockholm; † 26. April 1918 in Cachy, Frankreich) war ein schwedischer Maler und Leichtathlet.

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