Knut Ekwall

Knut Ekvall ( born April 3, 1843 in Säby, Jönköping County, Sweden, † April 4, 1912 ) was a Swedish painter.

Life

From 1860 to 1866 Ekvall attended the Art Academy in Stockholm, then dealt practically with the wood -engraving and drawing. At 27, he settled down in 1870 in Munich and worked in Leipzig later. Ekvall is distinguished particularly by illustrations in magazines on both dwellings. From 1873 he lived in Berlin and became a student of the genre painter Ludwig Knaus. There he had contacts with publishers, which valued him as an illustrator. In 1885 he returned to Sweden and died at the age of 69 years on April 4, 1912.

His subjects Ekvall was almost always in the life of the people around him. In addition to his already -mentioned illustrations in newspapers and magazines of his book illustrations nor its leaves to highlight Frithjofssage by Esaias Tegnér.

Works (selection)

• After midnight
• Sailor homecoming
• After the Bath
• The Berlin Fire Department
• Lendemain
• Final chord (1881 )
• The first ball (1884 )