Joseph Adolf Johannes Sköld (14 July 1894 – 7 November 1958), commonly known as Otte Sköld, was a Swedish painter, mosaicist,

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, graphic artist, and teacher. He taught at the Académie Moderne and Académie Scandinave both in

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, Paris, and later ran his own painting school in Stockholm. Sköld worked as the director of the

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in Stockholm, and was involved with the founding of the

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Early life and education

Otte Sköld was born as Joseph Adolf Johannes Sköld on 14 July 1894, in

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, China. His parents, Eva Charlotta Eriksdotter and , were

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. His brother was

Hannes Sköld Johannes (''Hannes'') Evelinus Sköld (20 September 1886 – 14 September 1930) was a Swedish socialist and anti-militarist. Sköld was also a linguist, teacher, writer, poet, and songwriter. Biography Johannes Sköld was born in Heby. Larg ...

, a noted linguist and

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. His early schooling was in China, and at the age of thirteen his family moved to Sweden. He attended , the

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painting school, and the

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in Stockholm (now

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Career

In 1926, he taught at the Académie Moderne, and at the newly opened Académie Scandinave; both schools were in Montparnasse, Paris. The following year in 1927, he opened his own painting school, Otte Skölds Art School () in Stockholm (now Pernby School of Painting). He was a professor at the

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from 1938 until 1942, and served as director from 1941 until 1950. Sköld was a superintendent and director of the

in Stockholm from 1950 until 1958. He was involved with the founding development of the

, which opened in 1958. Sköld died on 7 November 1958, in the district of

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in Stockholm, Sweden, and is buried in the cemetery at . His work can be found in museum collections, including the

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, the

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, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Ostergotlands Museum in Linköping, Sweden, Norrköping Art Museum in Norrköping, Sweden, the Perlman Teaching Museum at

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, and the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sköld, Otte 1894 births 1958 deaths Artists from Stockholm Konstfack alumni People from Wuhan Swedish painters Swedish art educators Swedish curators Swedish male painters Scenographers