Roland Svensson

Roland Svensson ( January 18 1910 - July 31 2003), was a Swedish painter, writer, black-and-white artist, illustrator of books and originals for stamps.

He sought his motives among the islets and skerries around the summer cottage at Möja in the Stockholm archipelago depicting and describing the seasonal changes with deep and vivid animation.

Illustrated publications

* Evert Taube, "Sjösalaboken" (1942)
* Sven Barthel, "Gillöga" (1945)
* Sven Barthel, "Archipelago", Bonniers (1952)

* He also published illustated books describing the rendezvous between land and sea around "Scotland" and distant islands suck as the "Orkney", "Shetland", "Hebrides" and "Tristan da Cunha".

External links

* [http://www.rolands-art.org/ "Sällskapet Roland Svenssons vänner"] , Friends of Roland Svensson - a society founded in March 2003. In Swedish, but with all the graphic prints.