Sven Gillgren’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro svensk målare och grafiker
Was Artist 
Painter 
Graphic artist 
From Sweden 
Type Arts 
Creativity 
Gender male
Birth 25 March 1889, Stockholm
Death 1966, Stockholm
(aged 76 years)

Sven Josua Gillgren, född 25 mars 1889 i Stockholm, död 1966 i Stockholm, var en svensk målare och grafiker.

Han var son till skräddarmästaren Sven Gillgren och Anna Larsdotter. Gillgren studerade konst vid Wilhelmsons målarskola 1917-1918 och vid Tekniska skolan i Stockholm samt under studieresor till Köpenhamn, Amsterdam och Paris. Han medverkade i en stor del av Sveriges allmänna konstförenings utställningar 1918-1952 och i åtskilliga lokala konstföreningars utställningar. Hans konst består av stilleben och landskap ofta med motiv från Stockholms omgivningar, som grafiker arbetade han med torrnål och träsnitt. Han tilldelades första priset vid en tävling om utsmyckningen av gravkapellet vid Karolinska sjukhuset i Stockholm 1939.

Tryckta källor

  • Svenskt konstnärslexikon del II sid 293, Allhems Förlag, Malmö.
  • Svenska konstnärer, Biografisk handbok, Väbo förlag, 1987, sid 169, ISBN 91-87504-00-6
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