Axel Linus ERIKSSON
1885–1980, Sweden/USA
Biography
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Axel Linus (Eriksson) biography:
Linus studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm (1905-10) and at Academies Colarossi and Moderne in Paris (1911-12).
Upon immigrating to Chicago in 1920, he worked as a muralist, portraitst, and commericial artist. Important portrait commissions included Charles Lindberg and Carl Sandburg.
In the mid-1930s he married and set out across the Southwest camping and painting landscapes of the Southern California deserts.
In 1940 he settled in Palm Springs, CA where he purchased a hotel and set up a studio in the scenic Snow Creek Canyon at the foot of Mt San Jacinto. Linus died there on April 2, 1980.
Member: Desert Art Center Ass’n; Palm Desert Palette Club.
Exhibited: Scandinavian Artists of the West, Los Angeles, 1939.
Axel Linus Eriksson biografi:
Axel Linus Eriksson var en svensk målare. Han var lärling hos standarmålaren Viktor Lindblad i Örebro och utbildade sig vid Ahltins konstskola, Konstakademin i Stockholm och i Paris. Han övertog år 1916 en ateljé efter Axel Borgs vid Stortorget 14 i Örebro där han utförde bland annat landskap, bilder av gårdar, naturmotiv, porträtt och illustrationer i tidskrifter. Han emigrerade 1920 till Chicago, USA, där han blev särskilt känd som porträttmålare
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