Karl Johan Lilliesköld

Born in Stockholm, Sweden 1954.
The son of a master-builder. The youngest of four siblings.

” I left college after only one month... I hade been admitted to the Gerlesborgsskolan art school in Stockholm and somehow I made use of the temporary chaos emerging around my fathers untimely death in 1970."

"At only 16 years of age I was probably a bit immature as a person and also lacking in experience with the pencil and the charcoal stick for such a school.
But I had a fire...already at 13-14, instead of mucking about with scooters or with the football team, as my classmates did, I went to the Stockholm National Gallery and other collections and awed at the masterpieces, the Rembrandts, the Corots, the Zorns...This was my calling, telling stories with pictures.."

”During the two years at Gerlesborgsskolan I used my time mainly drawing in front of live models. Pencil on paper and-or charcoal on paper. I only did a few colour studies in oil paint during that time.
You see...the professors were all good teachers and loveable persons, but during that period in time classic painting craft
was frowned upon and not in line with the flowering ”revolutionary” spirit at that time...

So...after also having seen the type of work that wa...

Gerlesborgskola, Stockholm 1970-1971
(Professors Arne Isacsson, Peter Dahl & others)
Mainly Sel-taught.

KARL JOHAN LILLIESKÖLD

Selected Solo-exhibitions :

Galleri K, Culture-Center Koordinaten - Oxelösund 2023
Rörverkstaden - Hälleforsnäs konstförening 2017
Galleri Nord - Örebro 2014 & 2009
Gallery Quirinus - Köping 2013
Galleri HandMade - Nyköping 2013
Galleri Jan Wallmark - Stockholm 2010 & 2005
Miva Gallery - Malmö 2010
Art center - Flens Bibliotek 2009
Art center - Arboga Bibliotek 2008
Galleri Sjöhästen - Nyköping 2008
Galleri Gamla Väster - Malmö 2007
Galleri Nord - Örebro 2006
Galleri Tapper-Poppermajer - Malmö 2005
Pelles Lusthus Art center - Nyköping 2004
Galleri Ängelsberg - Ängelsberg 2004
Galleri Stenlund - Stockholm 2000 & 2004
Konstfrämjandet - Eskilstuna 2003
Galleri Lagerwall & Lagerwall - Göteborg 2000
Galleri Galax - Göteborg 1997
Härja Prästgård - Tidaholm 1994 & 1998
Galleri Bennetter - Stockholm 1993 & 1996
Eva Jekel Gallery - London 1991
Arundel House Art - London 1988
Atlas Galleries, - Chicago 1985 & 1987
London Art Fair 1984,1985, 1986
Galleri AE - Göteborg 1984
Jan Heide Art, Stockholm Art Fair 1983
Galerie Art Visionnaire, - Paris 1982
Galleri Ippon - Malmö 1980 & 1...