Ulf Harald Linde (15 April 1929 – 12 October 2013
) was a
Swedish
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art critic
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,
writer
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, museum director and a member of the
Swedish Academy
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.
Born in
Stockholm
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, he was elected to the Swedish Academy on 10 February 1977 and admitted on 20 December 1977. Linde succeeded the writer
Eyvind Johnson
Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nob ...
to
Seat No.11.
Linde was the director of the
Thiel Gallery
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in Stockholm between 1977 and 1997.
Ulf Linde was active as a jazz musician, mainly in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He played
vibraphone
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and recorded with
Arne Domnérus and
Putte Wickman among others.
Bibliography
* Ragnar Sandberg: 1944-55 (1955)
* Anteckningar om schweizerstilen (1959)
* Johan Krouthén 1858-1932 (1958)
* Spejare : en essä om konst (1960)
* Lennart Rodhe (1962)
* Marcel Duchamp (1963)
* Siri Derkert (1964)
* Fyra artiklar (1965)
* Contreras : januari 1969 (1969)
* Geometrin i en målning av Piero della Francesca (1974)
* Eyvind Johnson : inträdestal i Svenska akademien (1977)
* Rune Jansson (1980)
* Johan Krouthén : 1858-1932 (1981)
*
Claes Eklundh (1981)
* Ulf Gripenholm (1984)
* Harald Lyth : målningar 1980-1985 (1985)
* Efter hand : texter 1950-1985 (1985)
* Marcel Duchamp (1986)
* Kjell Anderson : målningar 1970-86 (1986)
* Bo Trankell (1986)
* Den sentimentale satyren : om Heidenstams Hans Alienus (1987)
* Karl Axel Pehrson (1987)
* Bo Larsson (1987)
* Mot fotografiet (1989)
* Kjell Strandqvist (1989)
* Olle Olsson Hagalund (1989)
* Ingemar Nygren (1990)
* Gripenholm eller Tolv variationer över ett tema av * Basilius Valentinus (1990)
* Olle Skagerfors : akvareller och teckningar (1991)
* Clinch (1993)
* Rune Rydelius (1996)
* John-E Franzén : målningar och teckningar (1996)
* Lars Kleen : Konstruktionen : constructions (1998)
* Svar (1999)
* Ulf Gripenholm : målningar, teckningar, grafik (2002)
* Jazz : kåserier i Orkesterjournalen 1950-1953 och två artiklar (2004)
* Edvard Munch och Thielska galleriet (2007)
* Hans Lannér (2008)
* Från kart till fallfrukt : 70 korta kapitel om mitt liv et cetera (2008)
* Sammelsurium (2011)
* X-ets lustgård (2013)
Discography
* Jazz: 1948-1952
References
1929 births
2013 deaths
Members of the Swedish Academy
Scientists from Stockholm
Jazz vibraphonists
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