found the artist!
- have been trying to find something about him for more than 10 years... :-)
A piece of folk art from Sweden: Carved and painted by Axel Bister of Kiruna in 1952, this shows two Same (Lapp) men in traditional garb by the lake Ladtjojaure, with Kebnekaise mountain in the background.
Axel, on the left, worked for 50 (!) years for the iron ore mining company in Kiruna, LKAB. He drove the trams the company had built, until they closed down the tram line and put in buses, in 1958, and then worked in other capacities for the company until he retired in 1968. In his spare time, he carved and sold small wooden figures, and relief plaques which he then painted, often with a Same motif.
329/2017
P.S. Photo by flickr member Knyckis with a view across Lake Ladtjolaure with the mountains in the background: www.flickr.com/photos/niklasmoller/9931669145/in/faves-36...
found the artist!
- have been trying to find something about him for more than 10 years... :-)
A piece of folk art from Sweden: Carved and painted by Axel Bister of Kiruna in 1952, this shows two Same (Lapp) men in traditional garb by the lake Ladtjojaure, with Kebnekaise mountain in the background.
Axel, on the left, worked for 50 (!) years for the iron ore mining company in Kiruna, LKAB. He drove the trams the company had built, until they closed down the tram line and put in buses, in 1958, and then worked in other capacities for the company until he retired in 1968. In his spare time, he carved and sold small wooden figures, and relief plaques which he then painted, often with a Same motif.
329/2017
P.S. Photo by flickr member Knyckis with a view across Lake Ladtjolaure with the mountains in the background: www.flickr.com/photos/niklasmoller/9931669145/in/faves-36...