About the artist

Sköld was a Swedish painter who was born in 1894, he died in 1958. He studied at the Althin Painting School and the Technical Academy in Stockholm between 1912 and 1914. From 1914 to 1919 he lived and worked in Copenhagen. Between 1920 and 1927 he lived in Paris. He taught at the Académie Montparnasse and the Maison Watteau in Paris from 1925 to 1926. After moving to Sweden in 1929, he established, along with Åke Pernby, the art academy “Otte Skölds målarskola”. There he taught painting between 1932 and 1942. He was director of the art academy from 1941 to 1950. Sköld was also a member of the National Museum Survey between 1944-1949.

Sköld was appointed a director of the National Museum in 1950. In 1950 he established a museum in Exercishuset, (Skeppsholmen) which was devoted to contemporary art. He taught various Swedish artists among others Arne Isacsson, Lars Norrman, John Wierth, Strömholm, Ulla Waller, Ingrid Rydbeck-Zuhr, Siri Meyer and Bertram Schmiterlöw. Otte Sköld’s early work was influenced by cubism and futurism. After the First World War, he became a representative of the New Objectivity. Among his most important paintings were still lifes, portraits, café’s and variety shows in Paris. He has also carried out public works, like the mosaic The Good Earth (1938) at the Woodland Cemetery, glass paintings, and theatrical decors.
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