ERIC CEDERBERG (1897-1984) | A Swedish Surrealist

Eric Cederberg was born in Helsingborg, Sweden in 1897. A a self-taught artist, he began exhibiting publicly in his mid-twenties and throughout his life travelled widely, always open to the influence of new art movements as he experienced them. Early in his career he was a conventional painter, impressionist in style, but exposure to the Modern French artists led him to explore Cubism and later Surrealism. Both movements came to dominate his work and after the War his paintings followed two distinct strands, divided roughly into Cubist still-lifes and Surreal landscapes. By the last few decades of his life he had settled into repeating a number of motifs over and again, most often Surreal beaches, incorporating sea shells or buildings. In the current blizzard of interest in Mid-century Swedish art it has allowed Cederberg’s visual brand to stand out – the comfort of recognition being a key factor in any artist’s rise to fame. His works are found in the collections of Kristianstad Museum, Västerås Art Museum, Skissernas Museum, Lund and the Helsingborg Museum.

 

This collection of works from our gallery collection cover nearly half a century of Cederberg’s paintings and the full spectrum of his stylistic evolution over that period.