'Abstract Fish' by Nils Wedel

artist: Nils Wedel (Swedish 1897-1967) medium: mixed media on panel dimensions: 67 x 33 cm image size / 81 x 47 cm framed size (approx) signed and dated 59 presented new off white painted inner liner frame and hand finished timber outer frame AU $7950 (approx US $5665 / 4890 EUROS / 902,000 yen / 4260 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com) artist biography Nils Adolf Wedel was Swedish painter and designer born in Gothenburg on February 4, 1897. He studied at the Slöjdföreningens Skola in Gothenburg from 1915 to 1917 under Swedish artist Albert Eldh. Wedel lived in Denmark for five years from 1923 to 1928, moving back to Sweden where he lived in Malmö from 1928 to 1938. He then moved to Gothenburg where he taught paintings at graphics at the Handicraft Society School from 1939 to 1958. Public art: decorative paintings in the stairwells at the Norrköping Museum, the People's House in Gothenburg and Linköping and mosaic in the post office building in Sundsvall. Represented: National Museum in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö Art Museum Museum Norrköp. and Karlstad museums and Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. Wedel was married to textile artist Alice Wedel. He passed away at age 70 on July 17, 1967 in Kleva, Sweden.