Edvin Öhrström (1906-1994)


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Name (English): Edvin Öhrström
Short name: Edvin Öhrström
Year of birth: 1906
Year of death: 1994
Short Description: "Karl Edvin Öhrström (August 22, 1906 in Burlöv – December 2, 1994) was a Swedish sculptor and glass artist.

Öhrström grew up in Halmstad, where his father worked at the railroad. He started to work as a railroad worker, he trained to become an art teacher at Tekniska skolan (current Konstfack) in Stockholm 1925–1928, and at the sculptural department at the Royal University College of Fine Arts 1928–1931, with Carl Milles and Nils Sjögren as teachers. In 1932, in Paris, France. From 1932 to 1957, he worked two months per year at Orrefors Glasbruk in Småland. He often used the ariel technique, which he had invented together with the master Gustaf Bergkvist and the artist Vicke Lindstrand. Later, he worked at Lindshammars Glasbruk, where he developed his sculptures to prisms of gemstone colors that played with light reflections and refractions in the glass." - (en.wikipedia.org 30.01.2020)
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