Ivan Lönnberg (12 November 1891,

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– 26 April 1918,

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) was a Swedish

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

painter, marathon runner, and war veteran. In style he was close to the Swedish painters of his generation known as "" ("The Young") which included

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and Birger Simonsson.

Life and career

He studied art at a private school operated by

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. In 1912, he held an exhibition in Stockholm with two of his friends, and . He came to Paris in January 1914, where he became a part of a circle of Swedish painters on

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including Grünewald,

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, and . His also made friends with Nils Dardel and . After

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broke out, he joined the

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. While serving in Paris, he met artist Lena Börjeson and they started dating. He was mortally wounded by a shot in his left eye at the Western Front in 1918, the year the war ended. Lönnberg was also a

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. He was part of Sweden's

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team at the

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, but he and five of his teammates were unable to complete the race, due to being made ill by the intense summer heat. His production was quite small. Roughly 50 works are known, including those from art school and several self-portraits.''Sympatiens hemlighetsfulla makt'', ed. Göran Söderström, p. 298 (Swedish) Most of his paintings are at the

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in Stockholm. In a memorial exhibition in 1942, 48 of his works were shown. There are several portraits of him made by his artist friends, such as Dardel.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lonnberg, Ivan 1891 births 1918 deaths 20th-century Swedish male artists 20th-century Swedish painters Artists from Stockholm Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics Swedish male painters Modernism Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion Swedish male long-distance runners Swedish male marathon runners Olympic athletes for Sweden French military personnel killed in World War I