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Royal Library in Stockholm - has over half a million posters!
Some have now become postcards, more are on the way
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Postcards in the series: Number 32
The Swedish American line, SAL announced a competition. 719 contributions came in and Fritjof Pedersén won with the Swan. Large discounts and SEK 5,000 richer. Extremely great money and tremendous honor. All the best poster artists were in the competition. Gunnar Dahlin came second and Martin Gavler came third. No Margareta Solbreck Möller was among the nominees. No bad scalps for a pretty young illustrator and designer. SAL was based in Gothenburg and the day before the winner was announced, it rings at Fritjof's home: You have won! You have to take the night train to Gothenburg. The awards ceremony is at 10 am tomorrow. Hurry! So it was just to hop on the train to Gothenburg for awards, photo flashes and fancy dinner with all the directors at SAL.
Artist: Fritjof Pedersén 1923 -
Published: 1952
Size: 120 x 180 mm.
Printed: Sweden
Fritjof Pedersén
Fritjof (Fritiof) Josef Pedersén, born December 23, 1923 in Adolf Fredrik, Stockholm City, Uppland
Fritjof is a Swedish advertising artist, cartoonist and graphic artist.
He was the son of the bank official Josef Pedersén and Ingeborg Ahlberg and from 1951 married Laila Krüger. After Pedersén graduated from the Higher Art Industrial School in 1946, he made a number of study trips to the Netherlands, Belgium and France, among others.
Together with Lars Bramberg he exhibited posters at the Bankhallen in Stockholm in 1954 and he participated in group exhibitions at the Collector in Stockholm. He participated in the National Museum's exhibition Young Artists in 1946 and in the Association of Nordic Artists' exhibitions in Oslo and Stockholm. He mainly worked as an advertising artist and illustrator, but also performed regular visual arts in the form of drawings or graphics. As an illustrator, he appeared in the magazine Söndagsnisse-Strix. Pedersén is represented at the Nationalmuseum with a couple of posters and at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.