Otto G Carlsund - paintings for a movie theater 1926
Otto G Carlsund (1897-1948) - paintings for a movie theater, 160 pages, richly illustrated, text by Anders Wahlgren. English and Swedish, Carlsson bokförlag, Stockholm, February 2025.
For more than fifty years, arthistorian Anders Wahlgren has been fascinated by Otto G Carlsund’s work. The Swede who in 1924 came to Paris to study with Fernand Léger. The story behind Carlsund’s most central work, paintings for a movie theater, has become an enigma. Researchers have had different theories about these fantastic artworks but letters that remained in obscurity for seventy-five years now reveals a new picture. Wahlgren presents his sensational research in a book about the fate of this suite of paintings.