Early life

Sven was born on November 23, 1899 in Tumba

Tumba

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, Botkyrka Municipality

Botkyrka Municipality

Botkyrka Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, not far from the capital Stockholm. Its seat is located in the town of Tumba....

. Erixson went the long way as an artist. He started as an apprentice to a master painter at age 14 and trained as a professional. Then, he continued his education by studying decorative painting, while he took a drawing teacher at the Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design.

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 :...

 This was followed a year of study at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where he later also returned as a professor from 1943 to 1953.

Career

Erixson has a very large and diverse artistic production. He has painted landscapes with figures, often with motifs from the south, city and port pictures, interiors, floral pieces, etc.. His paintings are characterized by expressivitet and painterly must.
Erixson belong to Sweden's great artists, and is represented in most Swedish art museums. He was one of the artists who in 1932 started the color and shape.
Among the many artistic mission should include frescos of Holy Cross Chapel at Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm, from 1938 to 1940, as well as his great fresco of Huddinge, town halls, 1948 to 1949, in which he wove into his own childhood memories of the railroad town.
Erixson tried alongside his easel painting many other artistic tasks, often involving decorative imagination. He created such theatrical decor of Lorca's Blood Wedding, 1944, decor and costume sketches to Aniara, 1959.

Death

Erixson died on May 17, 1970 at the age of 70.