Max walter svanberg biography
Max walter svanberg biography
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Max Walter Svanberg
As a child, Svanberg carved female figures out of wood and built richly ornate mechanical music boxes. His inclination for craftsmanship led him to enroll in a professional school to become a wood carver. Although he wanted to make violins, his search for a master to teach him the craft was unsuccessful. In 1929 Svanberg was engaged as a promotional painter at the Palladium Cinema in Malmö.
He quit his job in 1931 to enroll in the Scanie Painting School in Malmö and then went to Stockholm where he attended courses at the Otte Sköld Academy in 1933-4. Back in his native city, he contracted polio. In 1943, with four other artists, including Carl-Otto Hulten and Carl O.
Svensson, he founded the Minotaur group, with surrealist leanings, which broke up after only a single event at the Malmö Town Hall. His first solo show was held at the Gummeson Gallery in Stockholm, in 1945. In 1946 he created Imaginism (again with Carl-Otto