Algot Törneman


Jarl Algot Gustav Törneman, nicknamed P. was a Swedish enamel artist and painter.

Career

Törneman was born in Vist, Linköping Municipality, Sweden, the son of Axel Törneman and his wife Gudrun. He passed studentexamen in Stockholm in 1927 and received a Candidate of Law degree from Lund University in 1937. Törneman worked at the Stockholm Town Hall Court in 1937 and STIM in 1940. He became CEO of AB Skandiastål in 1944 and AB Eda bruk in Värmland in 1948. During World War II, Törneman was part of the Swedish secret intelligence agency C-byrån.
Törneman was curator at the Association Hantverket in Stockholm from 1960 to 1968. He was commissioner for a number of Swedish handicraft exhibitions abroad and for the exhibition Svensk form in 1962. Törneman held solo shows in Stockholm in 1962 and in 1974. Törneman was board member of Konstfackskolan from 1963 to 1969. Törneman became secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1967 and an honorary member in 1968.
At Gustavsberg, he primarily worked with enamel panels intended for table surfaces. He performed embellishments in two of Systembolaget's stores in Stockholm. One mosaic of raw glass panels in the shop at Mäster Samuelsgatan.

Personal life

Törneman was married 1930–1937 to Ingalill Stenhammar, the daughter of the architect Ernst Stenhammar and actress Anna Flygare. They had two sons: the architect Alvar and the artist Ulf. In 1940 he married Birgit Rönström, the daughter of engineer Axel Rönström and Eyvor.

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