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The painting is shown in Bohushallen, Bohusläns museum. The painting depicted in the contemporary Swedish painting (1936), page 515. Carsten Hvistendahl was born and raised in Gothenburg and began painting in her teenage years. The father was a Norwegian consul in Gothenburg. The mother, Signe Hvistendahl, was an artist and the family was featured in artists' circles in Gothenburg. Summer stays at Koön, Marstrand during childhood. Studies at Valand’s Art School in Gothenburg for Tor Bjurström 1920-21 and 1924-25, for E. Othon-Friesz in Paris 1923-24, for Henrik Sörensen in Paris 1921-22 and 1923-24, and in Holmsbu, Norway summers 1925 and 1926, at Carl Wilhelmson’s Painting School in Stockholm in the autumn of 1925 and 1926, and at Konsthögskolan 1927-29. Mother and son were studying at the same school. He received Carl Larsson scholarship in 1929; several study trips and many stays in southern Europe over the years, especially the Basque Country in Spain. Recurrent summer stays in Bohusländer with Fjällbackaskärgården as central point. He first visited the area in 1926, buys houses on Fläskö in 1946. Most solo and collective exhibitions over the years. Hvistendahl is a fellow school student and has all depicted the residential landscape, but is also constantly returning to Norway, Brittany and southern Europe. In the 1960s he begins to work in a new technique, glass mosaic. Several large missions in which he sometimes mixes nest granite with Italian marble mosaic. Several of its works were made in sections in the pork studio, where he cooperated with Italian mosaics. For a closer presentation of Hvistendahl’s relationship with the landscape Bohusländer, see Sundberg 1995. Performed larger numbers of monumental works in oil and mosaic as major private or public decorative missions: Riksdag House, “Mountain hill landscape,” 1932; The Student Union House in Gothenburg 1932; Dingle Folk High School 1937-42, “The Build and Life of Bohusläns”; Uddevalla pensionärshems collection hall 1945; Uddevalla Folkets Hus, entrance hall 1946; Bohusläns-Hallands Recognized Central Cashier in Mölndal; The Tigerfabrik, AB Schwartzman & Nordström in Uddevalla 1949, “Edens lustgård” (photo on the painting from the year 2011 can be found in the appendix mark); The Thordén Shipowner, Uddevalla 1955; see painting in ship interior from T/T Josefina Thordén, the doorroom of the captain, photograph UMFA53200: 3069. Marble Mosaic Mission SPP in Gothenburg, Avenyn 23, 1960; two marble mosaics Radiohuset, Stockholm 1961, “From Bogen, Fjällbacka” and “A Bohusland Fris”; Four murals for AB Original-Odhner in Strömstad 1964-66, 1. “Kosterfjord” 2. “Resting Fossum, Tanum” 3. “Kastanjelund, Lommeland” 4. “From Ursholmen” Two Paintings Central School, Tanumshede, “Girl and Boy on the shore of Florö,” “Boy and Girl at the height of Fontin, King Elf with Bohus Fortress in the background” (1969). Destroyed after fire and demolition of the school in 1990. Represented at Nationalmuseum, Modermuseum, both in Stockholm, Göteborg Museum of Art, Gävle Museum of Art and Borås Museum of Art and Riksdag. The gift comprises three paintings by Carsten Hvistendahl from about 1935, about 1940 and 1963 and a portrait, a painting by Nils Nilsson in 1928; UM027894 - UM027897 and peripheral material and is bestowed by the artist’s daughter. See Bilagepärmen UM027894 for biographical data, works listings from various exhibitions 1950, 1970, 1985, invitation to the memorial exhibition 1985. Postcard over the house m. sea shed on Fläskö and two postcards on oil paintings in the family’s possession. Article “Carsten Hvistendahl”; Carlsson, N., Palette 4 1943. Literature: Ahlström, C. Five Gothenburg Cholorists. Göteborg-Posten 1985-06-15. Carlsson, N. Palette No. 4, 1943. Bohusländer, from the series Allhem’s picture books, 1956, p. 214 and 221. Holmér, F. Konstkrönika, Ord and Bild 1944. Hoppe, Ragnar. Current Swedish Painting, Second Part, A-B Swedish Literature, Stockholm 1936, p. 511-515 Sundberg, E. Carsten Hvistendahl. A painter’s life in the archipelago. The Mountain Back Sheet 79/1995. Swedish Artist’s Taxi, Band. 3, page 203-204. Exhibitions: Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstad. “To see the world as color - the Gothenburg schoolorists,” 8 October 2016 - 29 January 2017. The Museum of Bohusläns, Uddevalla. “With love for the color - met the Gothenburg schoolorists,” 1 April - 27 August 2017.