He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and like so many of his contemporaries found himself in Paris in the 1920s. There he established a reputation early on and was elected a member of the Salon d'Automne, exhibiting at their annual shows and joining their selection committee. He mounted a retrospective exhibition of young Swedish painting at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris in 1929. He is a post-impressionist painter of great talent and was well known in the inter war years, for his post-impressionist landscapes greatly influenced by Cezanne and Seurat. He remained to live and paint in Paris until his dying day but he was not forgotten in his native Sweden – his work his heavily represented in the provincial museums but especially in the Swedish National Museum. He participated in major exhibitions of contemporary French painting in London, Paris, New York and Tokyo. His work can also be found in the collections of the Contemporary Art Society, London, The Centre Georges Pompidou and the National Gallery of Art in New York.
