Lars Matson , born July 29, 1933 in Rankbäcken outside Sorsele in the interior of Västerbotten , died in 1994 , was a Swedish painter .
At an early age, his injured his right arm and received a disability for life. After studying in Gothenburg at Valand's art school , Lars Matson ended up in Sorsele again. He rented a studio in the old police station's detention facilities and developed a unique style that came to characterize his painting throughout his life. The artist in the village attracted personalities, both local profiles and Sweden-known artists. He lived with his family in an old converted outbuilding and made a living with a meager economy. The artists and cultural personalities he became acquainted with during this time came to mean a lot to the real breakthrough in Stockholm in 1962. When the exhibition was suddenly visited by opera singers, actors, renowned artists and big business owners, the press came and with the press also came Lars Widding and Fredrik Burgman who came to write several important articles in Expressen about the artist.
Lars Matson became an artist of the people with motifs that strongly touched the people who lived in the transition from the small farming community to large-scale agriculture. With strong portraits of people and animals from a bygone era and barren landscapes , he went straight into the heart of the common man.
Lars Matson's artwork depicting horses in forestry was perhaps the motif that stuck most in the audience's memory, but his breadth was much greater than that.
The last years of his relatively short life he devoted himself to the city landscape. This resulted in a large traveling exhibition which ten years after his death premiered at Västerbotten County Museum .
