At home in many Countries
Urban Larsson was born in 1966 in Stockholm, Sweden.
His interest in the Fine Arts was aroused at an early age: “My father was an architect, he was always bringing home drawings,” says Larsson. However, he didn’t discover his vocation until he spent a year as an exchange student in North Carolina a the age of 16. "There I had a huge amount of spare time and I ended up drawing and painting a lot.”
“ I always painted realistically,” he tells. “That’s a matter of personal taste. When I was younger I also adored Picasso and Gauguin, but in the end the styles of the old masters touch me and interest me the most.”
Larsson studied at the University of Stockholm
(Art History) and at the Stockholm School of Architecture. He then moved
to Florence, Italy,
to study at Cecil and Graves, the only atelier in Europe
dedicated to the instruction of traditional realism. He spent nearly three
years there studying the techniques and methods of the Old Masters.
He now is a prolific painter of portraits, landscapes and still lifes. For the last 10 years the artist has lived in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. There he has a studio, but Larsson also paints portraits and landscapes on location in other countries.