Ola Billgren, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ola Billgren

Swedish artist

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1940

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 04-Nov-2001

Profession: artist, painter

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ola Billgren (5 January 1940 – 4 November 2001) was a Swedish artist and art theorist.
His art can be seen in various public collections including Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.After a few years of informal art, Billgren became influenced by the new realism and photorealism in the 1960s, often, however, using contrasting abstract elements in his works.
He then had his breakthrough.After the mid 1970s he turned to seemingly traditional landscapes, deconstructing the conventions of romantic painting.Later on, he also examined colours and light in abstract paintings.
In the 1990s he presented a series of red-surfaced paintings, which at first sight give the impression of something abstract, after which the underlying pictures slowly emerge, like "suppressed figurations".