Arvid Kornelius Jorm (1892 – 1964) was a Swedish painter and graphic artist.Svenska Konstnärer: Biografisk Handbok, Redaktionsgruppen Väbo Főrlag: Vänersborg, 1987. Jorm was born Arvid Johansson in

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in 1892, the son of a shopkeeper.Svenskt Konstnärslexikon, Allhems Főrlag: Malmő, 1957. He changed his name to Arvid Jorm in 1919. He studied at the

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in Gothenburg under Axel Erdmann and Birger Simonsson, and in

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under Astrid Holm. He did study trips to France, Italy and North Africa. His work included Italian landscapes and town pictures, and Swedish landscapes, coastal and harbour pictures. He worked in oils, watercolours, woodcuts, lithographs and etching. Jorm's art decorated a number of buildings in Sweden including the ceiling of Skene Church,

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court house, and

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in Gothenburg. He died in Gothenburg in 1964.

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1892 births Artists from Gothenburg 20th-century Swedish painters 20th-century Swedish male artists 1964 deaths {{Sweden-painter-stub