Magnus Creutz (1909-1989)

Magnus Creutz (1909-89)

Born in Southern Sweden, he studied under Edward Berggren (1876-1906) at his private art school in Stockholm. Creutz went on to attend the Könsthogskolan (University College of Arts, Crafts and Design) in Stockholm between 1930 and 1935 where he studied under under Gösta von Hennigs (1866-1941) and Isaac Grünewald (1889-1944).

 

Creutz's held solo exhibitions in Norrköping in 1938 and 1942 before holding an exhibition at Gummesons Gallery, the leading contemporary gallery of the day in Stockholm in 1944. (Gummesons Gallery is one Scandinavia's foremost contemporary art galleries. He continued to exhibit commercially throughout Sweden in the 1940s, particularly as part of the artistic group 'De Unga' and later with the Swedish Public Art Association in Finland (1945) and Denmark (1946).

 

Creutz taught painting at the Konstfackskolan (University College of Arts, Crafts and Design) in Stockholm between 1950 and 1969 and was the curator of the Swedish Public Art Association between 1958 and 1976. He was awarded the Chancellor's Medal in 1939 and was a memeber of the Swedish Artists' national organization.

 

His paintings are represented in the museum collections in Norrköping, Linköping, Borås and Östersund; at the Ateneum art museum in Helsinki and the Institut Tessin in Paris - a museum dedicated to the history of Franco-Swedish artistic exchanges.