Torsten Andersson

Torsten Andersson was born in South Sweden in 1926. His career as a painter started with first exhibitions in the 1950s. In 1960, he became the youngest professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, a position he left in 1966. He returned to South Sweden, where he lived and worked until his death in 2009.

During his lifetime, Andersson was internationally exhibited and participated in the 32d Venice Biennale in 1964 and the São Paulo Biennial in 1959 and 1983. Retrospective exhibitions were on view at Moderna Museet in 1986 and Malmö Konsthall in 1987. His work was presented in solo and group exhibitions at Göteborgs Konstmuseum (2008), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2006), Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (2003), Kunstmuseum Bonn (1999), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (1997), Malmö Konstmuseum (1995), and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1981) among others. In more recent years, Andersson's works has been presented at Tomelilla konsthall, Tomelilla, Sweden (2022), Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany (2019), Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden (2018).

The Torsten Andersson Foundation, created by the artist in 2007, is compiling a digital catalogue raisonné of the artist's paintings between 1952 and 2009. Work on the catalogue raisonné was initiated in 2021, with Sofia Bertilsson (MFA, member of icra.art) as editor. The aim of this digital catalogue raisonné is to promote the scholarship of Torsten Andersson’s work and to safeguard his artistic legacy.