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Ansgar Almquist

1889 – 1973

Swedish sculptor

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Lived 1889 – 1973 (aged 84). Ansgar Almquist was a Swedish sculptor.

Kasper Ansgarius "Ansgar" Almquist (4 February 1889 – 15 June 1973) was a Swedish sculptor, primarily of freestanding figural bronzes.

Early life and education Born in Säby parish, now part of Tranås Municipality, to sales clerk Gustav Almquist and Augusta Åhman, Almquist was raised in the village of Åsen went to work for a furniture company when he was 14. In 1908 he began studying at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm; he continued in 1909 under the painter Carl Wilhelmson at Valand Academy in Gothenburg, and starting in 1910 in Paris, at the Académie Colarossi under Jean Antoine Injalbert and the École des Beaux-Arts. After the First World War, he returned to Europe in the 1920s on study tours in England, France, Germany and Italy. and also executed sculptures in wood for the interior of of the Holland America Line; Venus is now held by in Gothenburg. He exhibited frequently with the Swedish Association of Artists, and individually in Tranås in 1930 and in Norrköping in 1944.

Personal life and death Almquist married Sigrid Maria Löfgren in 1916. and works by him have also been shown at Moderna Museet and Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and at the and the Gothenburg Museum of Art.

Mälarstäderna, Stockholm City Hall Fiskarflickan, Stockholm County Museum

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Valand School of Fine Arts, Beaux-Arts de Paris
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Ansgar Almqvist

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Who was Ansgar Almquist?

Swedish sculptor (1889-1973)

When was Ansgar Almquist born?

Ansgar Almquist was born on 4 February 1889 in Säby församling, Linköpings stift.

When did Ansgar Almquist die?

Ansgar Almquist died on 15 June 1973 in Lidingö.

What was Ansgar Almquist's occupation?

Ansgar Almquist was a sculptor.

What nationality was Ansgar Almquist?

Ansgar Almquist was Swedish.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ansgar Almquist

· Wikidata: Q5547510

· DBpedia: Ansgar Almquist

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