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Torsten Andersson's birth. Born in Ostra Sallerup, in the Skane region of Southern Sweden in 1926, he graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1950. After early success as a young painter - which included several exhibitions with Galerie Blanche as well as inclusion of the Sao Paolo Biennial in 1959 - he abandoned his career and life in Stockholm, and returned to his childhood home in Benarp in 1966. After a six years pause from making artworks, Andersson returned to his practice and was in 1986 subject of a major retrospective exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm as well as Malmo Konsthall in Malmo in 1987. Other exhibitions include "Sextant. Six artistes suedois contemporains" at Centre Pompidou, Paris (1981); "The Louisiana Exhibition", Louisiana, Humlebæk (1997); "Zeitwenden", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (1999); as well as "Carnegie Art Award", which he won in 2007 - two years before his death in 2009 - with a touring exhibition that included such venues as Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden; and The Royal Academy of Art, London. Later this year, Andersson is subject to a solo exhibition at Dalslands Konstmuseum in Upperud, Sweden.
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