Peter Dahl (16 February 1934 – 17 May 2019) was a Swedish painter, sculptor, and printmaker.

Biography

Peter Dahl was the son of Hans Peter Dahl and Ragna née Askvik. The family moved in February 1939 from Norway to the borough of

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. His paternal grandmother and paternal uncles, including graphic artist

Chrix Dahl Chrix Dahl (5 January 1906 – 16 June 1994) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. Biography Christian Axel Dahl was born in Kristiania (now Oslo) Norway. He was the eldest son of Christian Axel Dahl (1878-1918) and Elise Augusta Steen ( ...

, stayed in Norway; he spent summers as a child with the family in

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. He became a Swedish citizen in 1954. From 1999 until his death, he was married to Tina Hamrin Dahl, PhD in History of Religion and MA in Political Science. They lived on

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in Stockholm. Dahl was educated at the

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from 1958 to 1963 under

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, and studied at the

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from 1959 to 1969 and at a number of other private and state art schools. He was himself a teacher at the Gerlesborg School from 1960 to 1970, head instructor at

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in Gothenburg from 1971 to 1973 and professor of painting at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1975 to 1979. In 1970, Dahl gained notoriety with the painting ('Liberalism's Breakthrough in Society'), also known as ('The Sibyl Painting') from the series ('Dreams in the Corner of the Sofa'). The painting, which was exhibited at

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, was seized by the police on 11 December on charges of indecency. After six months, however, the painting was returned to Dahl; it now hangs in the

Gothenburg Museum of Art Gothenburg Museum of Art ( sv, Göteborgs konstmuseum) is located at Götaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden. It claims to be the third largest art museum in Sweden by size of its collection. Collections The museum holds the world's finest collect ...

. Dahl had his major public breakthrough in 1982 at the

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in Stockholm with the painting ('The Park') and others. He became even more popular with his interpretations of all the '' Fredmans epistler'', 87 lithographs that were shown around the country from 1984. Paintings in the spirit of

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were also presented. Dahl is also known for his great passion for the fantasy world of ''Caribanien''. Dahl had his studio on the fourth floor of Sigurd Rings gata 12 in

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, overlooking

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; the studio is now a condominium. The studio was later located at the top of the building at Norr Mälarstrand 26 on Kungsholmen in Stockholm, overlooking the Riddarfjärden. Dahl is represented at the , and

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, among others. He is also represented in the . He illustrated 's 1989 edition of Carl Michael Bellman's songs. In 2006, Dahl was awarded the

Illis quorum ''Illis quorum'' (''Illis quorum meruere labores'') (English: "For Those Whose Labors Have Deserved It"), is a gold medal awarded for outstanding contributions to Swedish culture, science or society. The award was introduced in 1784 by King Gust ...

medal of the twelfth magnitude. On 18 May 2019, it was announced that Dahl had died in Stockholm, aged 85.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dahl, Peter 1934 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Swedish painters Swedish male painters 21st-century Swedish painters Swedish printmakers Royal Institute of Art alumni 20th-century printmakers Norwegian emigrants to Sweden Recipients of the Illis quorum 20th-century Swedish male artists 21st-century Swedish male artists