Staffan Norlind
Ernst Gudmund Staffan Norlind (born June 14, 1909 at Borgeby Castle , Lomma near Lund , † April 9, 1978 there ) was a Swedish painter and musician.
Life
Staffan Norlind was born in 1909 as the son of the painter Ernst Norlind and his wife Hanna Larsdotter at Borgeby Castle, located near Lund in the southern Swedish province of Schonen (Skåne) . After completing school at the cathedral school in Lund, he received musical training (teaching composition, piano) in Lund, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Dresden. This was followed by studies of painting, sculpture and ceramics with Carl Wilhelmson at the Valand Art School in Gothenburg, Académie Libre in Stockholm, the Académie Scandinave in Paris and the Skånska målarskolan in Malmö.
Multiple study trips took him through half of Europe, for example to Holland, Belgium, France, Germany and Italy as well as to the other Scandinavian countries. He was a member of the Entomological Society of Sweden and the Art Association of Skåne. Norlind was a painter of abstract motifs, he also made sculptures and small sculptures, smaller fantasy figures.
Norlind was constantly being compared to his father. Mental illnesses accompanied him since his youth, after a variety of therapies he gave the consent to a lobotomy in 1949 . This operation ended the possibilities of a creative life. Norlind died in 1978 at Borgeby Castle.
literature
- Norlind, Staffan . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 493 .
- Norlind, Staffan. In: Vem är Vem? - Skånedelen. 1948, p. 413 (Swedish).
Web links
- Borgeby slott (SE)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Norlind, Staffan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Norlind, Ernst Gudmund Staffan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish painter and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borgeby Castle , Lomma , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1978 |
| Place of death | Borgeby Castle , Lomma , Sweden |