Background
Ekström was born on the Swedish island Öland.
Ekström was born on the Swedish island Öland.
He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm 1865-1872. He lived in France 1876-1890. In 1910 he moved back to Öland.
Because of his way of painting the sun and the air, he was often called Solmålaren (The sun painter).