Max Walter Svanberg was a Swedish Surrealist painter, illustrator, and designer.

Born in Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

. Founder of the Swedish artist group Imaginisterna

Imaginisterna

Imaginisterna was a group of Swedish painters formed 1945 and dissolved 1955. Seeking an alternative approach to surrealism they turned away from the detailed style of Salvador Dali and looked for inspiration from artist such as Max Ernst, Paul Klee and abstract expressionism.-Notable members:Max...

 in 1948, but left them soon after. In 1950, he published an album of lithographs. He was invited to the surrealist group in Paris by André Breton

André Breton

André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"....

 in 1953 and started to associate with the group. Svanberg exhibited at the Galerie de l’Etoile Scellee in 1955. In 1958, he illustrated an edition of Rimbaud’s Les Illuminations. He died in Limhamn

Limhamn

Limhamn is, in an administrative sense, the southern district of Malmö Municipality in Sweden. Before 1915, Limhamn was a town of its own....

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The most prevalent motif is the womans body merged with elements of animals and fauna.