The post-war era and Concretism

The Men of 1947, Concretism and the opening of Moderna Museet.

In 1947 a group of young artists exhibited concrete, geometric art: Olle Bonniér, Lennart Rodhe, Karl-Axel Pehrson and Pierre Olofsson – “the Men of 1947”. Olle Baertling painted his pointed, open forms.

Others went in the opposite direction. Evert Lundquist painted simple motifs in thick, heavy paint, while the Informalists pursued spontaneous gesture and matter.

In 1958 Moderna Museet opened on Skeppsholmen. Under Pontus Hultén it became one of the most innovative museums in the world, with exhibitions of Duchamp, Warhol and the gigantic female sculpture She.

• Young Art 1947 and the ideas of Concretism
• Olle Baertling and the open form
• Matter, gesture and narrative
• The early years of Moderna Museet
• Art for all – popular movements and public spaces
• Close reading: She – A Cathedral
• Swedish Modern – design in the post-war years
• Photography takes its place
• The suburb, the high-rises and the new city
• Evert Lundquist
• Olle Baertling
• Lennart Rodhe
• Karl-Axel Pehrson
• Olle Bonniér
• Bruno Mathsson
• Greta Magnusson Grossman
• Stig Lindberg
• Astrid Sampe