Hans Krondahl is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 painter, tapestry

Tapestry

Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom, however it can also be woven on a floor loom as well. It is composed of two sets of interlaced threads, those running parallel to the length and those parallel to the width ; the warp threads are set up under tension on a...

 weaver, textile artist and textile designer. He studied painting and textile art at Konstfack

Konstfack

Konstfack or University College of Arts, Crafts and Design is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden.- History :...

, (State College of Arts, Crafts and Design) in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 from 1955 to 1960. Krondahl set up his own weaving studio in 1962, where he created tapestries and related artwork, and he also took up fabric designing for various Swedish companies. The studio closed in 1992. From the early 1960s Krondahl taught Textile Art and Design in various schools in Sweden and abroad. Periodically from 1974 on, Krondahl worked in the U.S. He held a position as Textile Design Expert for UNIDO in Bandung

Bandung

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, Indonesia

Indonesia

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 in 1979 and 1980. In 1981 Krondahl became head of the Crafts Department, University of Gothenburg and in 1988 he was appointed Professor of Textile Art at the same institution. In 1965 he was awarded the Lunning Prize

Lunning Prize

The Lunning Prize was instituted by Frederik Lunning, owner of the New York agency for Georg Jensen. The prize was awarded to eminent Scandinavian designers, two each year, from 1951 to 1970...

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Literature and sources

• The Design Encyclopedia, MoMA, New York 2004.ISBN 0-87070-012-x
• The Lunning Prize, Nationalmuseum, cat. 489, Stockholm 1986.ISBN 91-7100-297-9
• 34 Scandinavian Designers, ( Möller, S.E.), Copenhagen 1967.
• Design since 1945, (ed. Hiesinger, Kathryn.), Philadelphia 1983.
• Contemporary Textile Art ( Talley, Charles S.), Uppsala 1982.ISBN 91-7528-024-8
• Twentieth-Century Pattern Design. (Jackson , Lesley ) New York 2002.ISBN 1-56898-333-6
• Hans Krondahl : textila verk. (Lewenhaupt,Tonie & Stensman,Mailis).Stockholm 2009. ISBN 978-91-7331-2318
• Fiber Art Today** (Carol K. Russell), Arglen,PA. Schiffer ,2011. ISBN 978-0-7643-3777-2

External links

• Catalogue, http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/search/citi/artist%3Ahans+krondahl
• Designarkivet, http://www.designarkivet.se/en/index.php?pageid=29
• Blog, http://bigbigbigthings.com/2011/04/big-things-ahead-hans-2/
• Swedish Artists http://www.svenskakonstnarer.se/start/plus_gallery.php?chr=&aid=3348