Alexander AKERBLADH
Swedish-born (Sundeswall) painter and architect, who studied at Glasgow School of Art (1900), St John's Wood School of Art (1916), and the following year in Munich. He spent most of his artistic life in Britain with Chelsea studios though exhibiting widely. He finally settled in South Africa in 1960, aged 73, where he died the same year. Introduced at STIAC in 1923 (Nov).
media
Landscape and portrait painter; watercolourist (Benezit)
works and access
Access: Huddersfield Art Gallery
His work was featured in The Studio and Colour magazines.
exhibitions
RA; FIN (59); ROI; RBA; and in Paris
memberships
Art Workers' Guild 1945-
references
Benezit
Buckman (2006) Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p311)
Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists
Leicester Galleries (P Nahum on-line)
Tovey (2010) Sea Change, St Ives 1914-1930
Whybrow (1994) St Ives (1921-1939 list pp 219-21);