DIGITAL AUCTION

A digital auction with the sale of Ingegerd Möller's works via Bukowskis will take place between March 4-14, 2021. For more information, see > Bukowski's 

Artist Ingegerd Möller (1928–2018) grew up in Vålådalen in the Jämtland mountains and showed a great interest in nature at an early age. In her works, she came to recreate nature by depicting what she saw, felt and experienced, instead of trying to depict it more faithfully.

During my childhood, tourists began to come to the mountain farms. We called them “air guests” because they talked so much about the invigorating air. They looked out over the expanses, full of rapture, and I constantly heard the same encouraging outpourings about the beautiful views that surrounded us.

Unlike the “air guests”, the artist studied the ground; mosses, bogs, sloes and tufts. With care and a close scientific eye, she reproduced her detailed studies of low-growing vegetation in watercolor, oil, collage, crochet and weaving. She studied at the Grünewald School of Painting, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and under Lennart Rodhe and Pierre Olofsson at the Académie Libre, Stockholm. But it was also through her many travels that Ingegerd Möller gained her artistic world in color and form, both within and outside Sweden; Morocco, Mexico, Kenya, Russia, Nepal, Lofoten as well as Bohuslän and Lapland were some of the destinations.

The 1970s were an intense period in Ingegerd Möller's life with several exhibitions and public commissions for Huddinge Hospital, the Swedish National Bank and Fridhemsplan.
subway station which was inaugurated in 1975. She also began a long-term collaboration with the Friends of Handcraft.

In 1986, Ingegerd Möller moved to an older school building in Noor near Vätö in Norrtälje municipality and her artistic career took a different direction. She lifted her gaze from the ground and let people enter a kind of psychological landscape. The dark pond with or without human figures and the sickening red cross, placed in a difficult-to-understand mountain landscape, now reappear in many different forms. The ceiling painting in the library in Ájtte, Swedish Mountain and Sami Museum in Jokkmokk can be particularly mentioned.

A long and very active artistic career also resulted in a number of books. Not least a trip to Iceland left its mark, resulting in a suite of watercolors which were published in Diary pictures from Iceland with text by her friend, artist and children's book author Inga Borg.

In 1967, Ingegerd was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, which she later appointed as universal legatee. Her last will was that her sold estate, including her own works and art collection, should create a scholarship fund, Olof Norell and Ingegerd Möller Memorial Fund, with an annual award for artists “with a long and meritorious career behind them”. During the exhibition, there will therefore be both direct sales and an online auction where Ingegerd Möller's works will be sold. Ingegerd Möller was an artist who wanted to reach a wider public with her art. Her diverse exhibitions, books and graphic works testify to this. Through this memorial exhibition, her works will once again become accessible and can reach new groups who discover, or rediscover, a diverse artistry that took in the world as a field of inspiration.

GUIDED TOURS
Groups of up to 8 people can book a viewing of the exhibition. 
Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:00 or 16:30.
Price: 100 SEK/person.
Payment is made via card or Swish on site.

Information and booking
Curator Eva-Lena Bengtsson
eva-lena.bengtsson@konstakademien.se