Authors: Adam Rosenkvist & Emil Ivedal
Design: Waters Löwenhielm
Translation: Gabriella Berggren
2025, Swedish, English, hardcover
240 pages, 24 x 25 cm
ISBN: 9789198870596
During his long life, Hilding Linnqvist (1891–1984) made around seventy trips to four continents. From these destinations there are thousands of drawings preserved by The Hilding Linnqvist Foundation in Stockholm. Linnqvist always carried sketchbooks in his pocket and for him drawing was a seamless extension of the sensory apparatus, capturing aspects of existence that neither the camera, the diary, nor the letter could access. In short: his pencil was an antenna to the world.
With His Pencil as an Antenna to The World, makes a comprehensive overview of the travel drawings which until now have remained largely unexplored. The generous book presents more than a hundred drawings, most of them reproduced on a 1:1 scale, as full spreads from the sketchpads. Starting from the first trip in 1920, the drawings lead from France to North Africa, India and Greece to finally return to Sweden. The book sheds light on a significant part of Linnqvist's production and offers new entrances to the artist's most central works and to the actual practice of drawing.