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Sune Rudnert
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Sune Bertil Ingvar Rudnert was born on 17 March 1938 in Malmö and spent most of his life in that city, dying there on 7 September 2007. He came to formal art training relatively late: he attended Konstskolan Forum in Malmö between 1970 and 1973, then went on to study at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and separately studied watercolour painting under the painter Arne Isacsson. Alongside his studio practice he earned a doctorate in art history, a combination that was reflected in the thoughtful, historically aware quality of his imagery.
Rudnert worked across painting, printmaking, and sculpture, but it is his colour lithographs and watercolours that turn up most frequently in Swedish auction rooms and reference sources. His landscapes occupy a strange middle territory: the scenes are described with close naturalistic attention to light and spatial depth, yet the figures and objects within them carry an uncanny charge, tilting the work toward surrealism without ever fully abandoning representational logic. A recurring motif is interior space seen from slightly the wrong angle, or a landscape bathed in an almost theatrical light.
Beyond two-dimensional work, Rudnert developed a serious practice in enamel, exhibiting at the International Enamel Exhibition in Coburg (1981 and 1987), the Biennale VI Internationale de l'email in Limoges (1982), and the 3rd Nordic Enamel Triennial in Ronneby (1996). These international appearances placed him within a specialist European enamel community at a time when the medium was gaining new critical attention in Scandinavia.
He participated in group exhibitions organised by Limhamns konstförening, Skånes konstförening, and Skånska konstnärsklubben, as well as biennials and triennials at venues including Liljevalchs konsthall in Stockholm and Malmö konsthall. Solo exhibitions were held at Smålands Museum in Växjö, Galleri Saskia in Helsinki, Gävleborgs länsmuseum, and SDS-hallen in Malmö. He received the Ellen Trotzlig scholarship in 1974 and 1985, Malmö municipality's cultural scholarship in 1974, Kiruna municipality's cultural scholarship in 1975, and Arvidsjauros cultural scholarship in 2001.
Rudnert's work is held in the permanent collections of Moderna Museet, Malmö Museum, Smålands Museum, Skissernas Museum in Lund, the Swedish National Art Council, and Malmö Concert Hall, as well as in a number of regional and municipal collections across Sweden. On the Swedish auction market, his colour lithographs from the 1970s and 1980s appear with some regularity, particularly through southern Swedish houses. The 13 lots tracked on Auctionist have passed mainly through Helsingborgs Auktionskammare and Garpenhus Auktioner, with realised prices at the entry level of the market, reflecting a modest but consistent collecting interest in his graphic work.