A pioneer of Swedish Modernism | Paintings by Axel Törneman, 1880-1924

Axel Törneman, Shadows, 1925

Axel Törneman, In the garden, 1907

Axel Torneman Illuminated landscape with trees

Axel Törneman, Illuminated landscape with trees

Axel Törneman, The White Birch, 1902

Axel Törneman, Night Café II, 1906

Axel Törneman, Café Life, 1906

Axel Törneman, King’s Tower, 1922

Axel Törneman, On the quay, 1915

Axel Törneman, Storytime, 1919

Axel Torneman Self Portrait with Cigarette 1904

Axel Törneman, Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1904

Axel Törneman, Self-portrait with Still Life, 1904

Axel Törneman (1880 –1925) was one of Sweden’s earliest modernist painters.
He was one of the first Swedish expressionist artists, and became a part of the international avant-garde in art after embracing more abstract art styles in Germany and France that were evolving there during the early 1900s.
Törneman gained international stature in 1905 at the Salon d’Automne in Paris. He studied at the Académie Julian, where after seeing van Gogh’s and Gauguin’s work, he brightened his palette. During his time in Paris, Törneman’s friends were able to locate him by following the sketches he left in Paris cafés.

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