'Röd horizont' (Red Horizon) by Hardy Strid

'Röd horizont' (Red Horizon) by Hardy Stridartist: Hardy Strid (Swedish 1921 2012) medium: oil on metal panel dimensions: 54 x 43 cm panel size 56 x 45 cm frame size signed and dated 60 presented in a new hand painted white timber frame AU $1050 (approx US $764 645 EUROS 79,500 yen 595 GBP for exact current conversion visit xe. com) artist bio Hardy Bertil Roland Strid was born July 6, 1921 in Haverdal. He was a Swedish painter, print maker, sculptor and glass artist. Strid originally trained

artist: Hardy Strid (Swedish 1921-2012)

medium: oil on metal panel

dimensions: 54 x 43 cm panel size / 56 x 45 cm frame size
signed and dated 60
presented in a new hand painted white timber frame

AU $1050 (approx US $764 / 645 EUROS / 79,500 yen / 595 GBP - for exact current conversion visit xe.com)

artist bio
Hardy Bertil Roland Strid was born July 6, 1921 in Haverdal. He was a Swedish painter, print maker, sculptor and glass artist.

Strid originally trained as a house painter. At the same time he studied easel painting for local artists. At the end of the 1930s, inspired by the Halmstadgruppen (Halmstad Group) he experimented with paintings. It was fine art that became his career. He studied drawing under by Waldemar Lorentzon, Uno Liljegren and Bengt Berglund between 1941 and 1945 before applying to Valands målarskola (painting school) in Gothenburg where he studied with Endre Nemes from 1947 to 1952. This was followed by study trips to France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Morocco as well as England, where he studied glass painting with Tom Faers.

Strid exhibited his work in solo and group shows. Select solo exhibitons include shows at Gallery 54 in Gothenburg, Galerie Biech and Gallerie Jensen in Copenhagen, Gallery 5 sekler in Stockholm and at galleries in Falkenberg, Landskrona, Söndrum and Halmstad. He exhibited with Rolf Bengtsson and Börje Pålsson in Halmstad in 1944, and with Jette Thyssen and Knud Jans at Galerie København, and together with Bertil Kumlien in Örnsköldsvik in 1964. He took part in the colour lithography biennale in Cincinnati in 1954, Zwanzig Westschwedische Maler in Lübeck in 1955, Ten Swedish Painter in Edinburgh, Nya Valand at Liljevalchs konsthall, Schwedische Grafik von Heute in Germany as well as a series of Swedish collective exhibitions in various locations and exhibitions arranged by Hallands konstförening (art association) and Halmstad Konstnärsklubb.

In 1954 for Folkets hus in Halmstad, he produced the monumental cubist work Form ät materia.In Kortedala in 1957 he created a large decorative exterior mural, and for Martin Luther's church in Halmstad he designed a series of window paintings in etched glass. 

During the 1960s he was active in the Situationist International. The Situationists were a political/artistic association that operated in several countries around the mid 20th century. Strid also co-founded Drakabygget together with Danish artists - the brothers Jørgen Nash and Asger Jorn in the early 1960s.

He painted still lifes, cubist works, landscapes and figurative paintings executed in oil, watercolour, gouache, tempera as well as several of the various mixed techniques and enamel painting . He created sculptures in glass or marble.

Examples of Strid's work are held in public collections including the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Gothenburg Art Museum, Kalmar Art Museum, Norrköping Art Museum, Halland Art Museum, Värmland Museum, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst in  Copenhagen, Cincinnati Art Museum and Museum Jorn in Silkeborg.

He passed away on March 27, 2012 in Halmstad.