Gustaf Wilhelm Kull | 1906 - 1997
Gustaf Wilhelm Kull , born December 26, 1906 in Lund , died June 5, 1997, was a Swedish painter, graphic designer, advertising artist, sculptor and drawing teacher .
He was the son of sea captain Gustaf Hjalmar Kull and Anna Charlotta Jepsson and from 1941 married to Annmarie Gerefeldt (1912–2010). Kull studied at the School of Art and Industry in Stockholm from 1924 and he graduated as a drawing teacher in 1927. He continued his art studies with sculpture for Michael Powolny at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna in 1937–1938 and during study trips to Germany. He exhibited separately at the Katedralskolan in Lund in 1934 and he participated in group exhibitions with Skåne's art association several times. He participated in the artist group Blandningen's exhibitions at Malmö Museum , Ystad Art Museum and Kristinestad Museum . He was represented at the poster artists' association's exhibition at the National Museum and in exhibitions with Sweden's general art association . His art consists of portraits, figure compositions, landscapes and cartoon street motifs. As a sculptor, he executed portrait busts and small figures. He edited and published two lithograph folders in the Rotoserien Learn to Draw in 1946 as well as a few books.
Kull is represented with graphics at the Modern Museum in Stockholm, Lund University Art Museum and Ystad Art Museum .
He ended his career with a total measurement of Drottningholm's palace theatre , which resulted in 28 fantastic "X-ray drawings" of the unique stage machinery's various parts, as well as measurements of the stage room at different levels. This he did after his retirement. Obsessed with the theater that he was, he thought of "wood graining" all the wood in the drawings, which luckily was stopped by his son, who had his pictures printed and sold them all over the world. Gustaf Kull is buried at Lidingö cemetery .
