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Roland Lindberg
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Roland Lindberg grew up in Kalmar on Sweden's southeast coast, and the light of that shoreline - the grey-green water, the flat land meeting the sky over Öland - stayed with him throughout his painting life. Born Christmas Day 1935, he studied at Östermalms målarskola in Stockholm under Evert Lundqvist, one of the most influential Swedish painters of the postwar period. Lundqvist's teaching, grounded in a directly expressive but disciplined approach to colour and form, left a visible mark on how Lindberg structured his canvases.
His output spans landscapes from the Kalmar coast and Öland, interiors, still lifes, portraits, and figurative work with what his contemporaries described as an "oppositional spirit" - a phrase that suggests a willingness to place figures in tension with their surroundings rather than simply recording them. He made more than twenty study trips across Europe and Africa, broadening the visual vocabulary of a painter rooted in provincial Swedish scenery.
Lindberg lived most of his adult life in Vetlanda in Smaland, but returned to the Kalmar region in his later years, settling in Alem where he died in October 1993 at the age of fifty-seven. During the 1980s he participated in group exhibitions under the collective name "De Nio" (The Nine), alongside a group of Swedish painters including Ragnar Persson and Calle Johansson. The gallery that gave him his first solo showing, Galerie Belle in Vasteras, chose him as its inaugural artist when it opened in 1967 - a position of trust in Swedish regional art circles at that moment.
His work entered the collections of Moderna museet in Stockholm, Goteborg's konstmuseum, Kalmar konstmuseum, Vasteras konstmuseum, Jonkoping's museum, Vetlanda museum, and Smalands konstarkiv. On the Swedish auction market, the 23 items on Auctionist have sold primarily through Kalmar Auktionsverk and houses in the southeast of Sweden, reflecting the regional concentration of his reputation. Recorded hammer prices have been modest - the highest result is 633 SEK for an oil on panel titled "Blommande strand" (Flowering Shore) - suggesting his work circulates actively within a dedicated regional collector base rather than the broader national market.