Ingrid Årfelt
1923-1999.
Artist, graphic designer.
After studying at Edwin Oller's painting school and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ingrid Årfelt joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1941.
At the Academy of Fine Arts, she participated in the teaching of graphics and in the sculpture department from 1946-1948.
In 1956, Årfelt received a scholarship from the Italian government and spent a period in Rome at the Accademia degli stanieri.
Årfelt has worked with portraits, figure compositions and landscapes. Her works are executed in woodcut, drypoint, aquatint, linocut and pastel. In 1962, Årfelt published a pictorial version of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, a work that attracted great attention.
Since 2008, Upplandsmuseet has had a forged artwork by Ingrid Årfelt from 1963, inspired by the folk life around the old restaurant "Rullan" in Uppsala. The artwork depicts and romanticizes an era that was obliterated by demolition and new construction.
Ingrid Årfelt is represented at several museums, including the National Museum and the Stockholm City Museum.
Burial site: 0157-0262
Image description: Ingrid Årfelt in her studio with one of her "shell-shaped" sculptures. Photo: From private collectionThe image is cropped]
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