Background
Jorm was born Arvid Johansson in Gothenburg in 1892, the son of a shopkeeper.
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Arvid Jorm
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He studied at the Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg under Axel Erdmann and Birger Simonsson, and in Copenhagen under Astrid Holm.
Career
He changed his name to Arvid Jorm in 1919. 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, Skövde court house, and Liseberg in Gothenburg. He died in Gothenburg in 1964.
