Framed Drypoint Print, 'Eliel Löfgren' by Axel Fridell 1928

Framed Drypoint Print, 'Eliel Löfgren' by Axel Fridell 1928 (Signed & Dated) 
 
Edition 1/50 

Measures - 31.5 x 22 cm.
 
Jonas Eliel Löfgren (15 March 1872 in Öjebyn – 8 April 1940 in Stockholm) was a Swedish jurist and Liberal Party politician. He served as Minister of Justice from 1917 to 1920 and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1926 to 1928.
 
Biography of the Artist - 
 
 
Axel Fridell (1894-1935) 
 
Printmaker, primary income from portrait engravings, including the Swedish Royal family; born Falun in Dalarna 1894; Art Academy, Stockholm 1913-16, first trip abroad to Copenhagen 1914; exhibited etchings in student exhibition 1917; first major exhibition at Kunstforeningen with Eric Detthow and David Tägström; to Copenhagen 1918; to Germany, Venice and Florence 1921; to Paris 1923; to London 1926-27, to Bedford Place, Russell Square and Oakley Street, Chelsea; married Ingrid Starck in London; became member of Chelsae Arts Club; through Thorsten Laurin was introduced to Martin Hardie and Campbell Dodgson 1927; signed a contract with Bukowski May 1929, giving the firm exclusive rights to the sale of his work in return for a monthly stipend of 750 Kr, valid until 30 June 1931; to Paris 1928-9; returned to London and took a studio in Wentworth Studios, Manresa Road; to Sussex 1929; contract with Bukowski, monthly pay increased to 1,000kr; to Paris, Rotterdam and Amsterdam 1930, work in Paris show influence of Meryon, Holland Rembrandt; first solo exhibition at Bukowski, Stockholm 1930; separated from wife1932 and suffered from depression; to Paris and London1932-34; produced caricatures influenced by Cruikshank and Goya in winter of 1932-33; recorded nearly all of his work in a ledger; died 26 May 1935 in Stockholm; group of art collectors who had supported him in 1933-34 had some of the London plates published posthumously in 1958; television film made about the artist 1980 (From the British Museum)