Plate 17 from L'AVANGUARDIA INTERNAZIONALE, Volume 2/L'AVANT-GARDE INTERNATIONALE, Volume 2/THE INTERNATIONAL AVANT-GARDE, Volume 2

Max Walter Svanberg was a Swedish painter and photographer whose abstract and surrealist compositions emerged from the postwar European avant-garde. Working primarily in oil and collage, he developed a distinctive visual language combining geometric forms with dreamlike figuration, often incorporating photographic elements into his paintings. Based in Sweden, Svanberg remained engaged with modernist experimentation throughout his career, producing work that bridged abstraction and narrative impulse.

Malmö, Sweden