#konstfackskolan

Edvin Ollers (March 28, 1888 - 1959) was a Swedish designer and artist. He trained at the Konstfack in Stockholm and Valands Målarskola in Gothenburg. Later he worked for Kosta Glasbruk, where this glass was created. In summer he ran a painting school in the Swedish skerries near Lysekil

Pia Ranslet, Danish painter and sculptor, turns 66 today (b. July 3, 1956)…

Ranslet studied Art History in Copenhagen, but was mainly educated as an artist in Sweden - at Konstfackskolan and Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna, both in Stockholm.

Both her parents and her sister are artists as well...

Ernst Nordin is a Swedish sculptor and educator - 87 today...

Nordin trained at Konstfackskolan and the Swedish Royal Academy and taught for decades at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm. He has created many public works and also designed coins for the Swedish Gov’t.

Above: Non Serviam (bronze, 1980) - a statue placed in the dreariest imaginable concrete environment at Malmskillnadsgatan in Stockholm. The girl, Erika, is reading a poem by Gunnar Ekelöf of the same title: "Jag är en främling i detta land

men detta land är ingen främling i mig!

Jag är inte hemma i detta land

Gertrud Stavling (Jan. 10, 1918 - 2008) was a Swedish artist who originally trained as a furniture designer, but who throughout two decades of further studies at various art schools in Sweden and France, incl. Konstfackskolan in Stockholm secured a broad education for herself as an artist.

Her style borrows from commercial art, and her works are slightly Surrealist depictions of stylish cars, buildings and objects, usually devoid of human figures.