A guest exhibition with oil paintings by artist Helge Frender will open at Sandgrund Lars Lerin on December 6.
Helge Frender, born 30 September 1906 in Jörn Västerbotten County, died 3 January 1976 in Filipstad, was a Swedish painter.
Frender’s parents moved to the country of Värmland when he was small, he grew up first in Filipstad and later in Charlottenberg. He studied art with Thor Fagerkvist who encouraged him to pursue figure painting with religious content, then studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1932–1937.
Frender made his debut in 1939 in Stockholm, and has since participated in several exhibitions in Sweden. His art consists mainly of paintings done in oil with motifs, nudes, figure compositions, often with religious subjects, landscapes with Värmland and French motifs, and still lifes.
He was awarded the Boberg Scholarship in 1934 and 1935, the Gustaf Rydberg Scholarship in 1936 and became a traveling scholar of the Värmland Art Association in 1955.
Frender is represented at Värmland Museum with four oil sketches for Karlstad Crematorium, National Museum, Norrköping Art Museum, Borås Art Museum, Halland Art Museum and at the Institut Tessin in Paris.
The exhibition ends on January 11th.