'Abstract' by Margareta Sandberg-Hög

'Abstract' by Margareta Sandberg-Högartist: Margareta Sandberg Hog (Swedish 1924 2016) medium: oil on panel dimensions: 39 x 31 cm signed circa early 1960s presented in its original frame artist biography Ester Margareta Sandberg Hg was born on 8 July 1924 in Karlsborg. She was a Swedish painter and textile designer. Sandberg Hg studied both weaving and textile design with Barbro Nilsson at the Konstfackskolan, and fine art at Isaac Grnewalds Mlarskola in Stockholm. She took private

artist: Margareta Sandberg-Hög (Swedish 1924-2016)

medium: oil on panel

dimensions: 39 x 31 cm
signed
circa early 1960s
presented in its original frame

artist biography
Ester Margareta Sandberg-Hög was born on 8 July 1924 in Karlsborg. She was a Swedish painter and textile designer.

Sandberg-Hög studied both weaving and textile design with Barbro Nilsson at the Konstfackskolan, and fine art at Isaac Grünewalds Målarskola  in Stockholm. She took private study trips to Germany, Italy and France. In 1969 she studied painting at the Werkkunst-Schule in Hannover.

Her debut exhibition was at the Gävle museum in 1957, which was later followed by solo exhibitions in Stockholm, Laxå, Karlsborg, Bollnäs, Raumo in Finland and Hanover in Germany. Together with Juho Suni and Johnny Mattsson, she exhibited in Visby and she participated in some of the county exhibitions in Gävle. Among her public works are a textile wall decoration for the Sundsvallsbanken in Söderhamn, a curtain for the Central School in Karlsborg, rugs for the Tobacco Monopole, the Riksbank in Gävle and the town hall in Raumo, Finland, a pulpit tapestry for the Mission Church in Valbo and a large textile for the Garrison Church in Karlsborg. During the 1950s, she designed an award winning wallpaper collection with stylised patterns printed at Duro.

Sandberg-Hög painted abstracts, still lifes and landscapes executed in oil , pastel or watercolour, as well as ecclesiastical fabrics and appliqués. She also produced woodcut prints. Alongside her own practice, she worked for a few years as a textile teacher in Högbo and in the municipality of Sandviken, where she taught technical textile design.

Sandberg-Hög passed away at the age of 91 on 4 June 2016.