Background
Bjurstrom, Per Gunnar was born on March 28, 1928 in Stockholm. Son of Gunnar and Claire (Hellgard) Bjurstrom.
Bjurstrom, Per Gunnar was born on March 28, 1928 in Stockholm. Son of Gunnar and Claire (Hellgard) Bjurstrom.
Doctor of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1961.
Assistant curator National Museum, Stockholm, 1950—1968. Curator prints & drawings, 1968—1980. Director Swedish National Art Museum, 1980—1989, professor, since 1989.
Visiting lecturer Yale University, New Haven, 1968. Kress professor National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990—1991.
Giacomo Torelli and Baroque Stage Design 1961, Stage Design in Sweden 1964, Feast and Theatre in Queen Christina’s Rome 1966, German Drawings in Swedish Public Collections 1972, French Drawings in Swedish Public Collections 1976, 1982, 1986, Italian Drawings in Swedish Public Collections 1979, Johan Tobias Sergei 1975, Three Decades of Swedish Graphic Art 1946-1976, Roman Baroque Scenery 1977, Philip von Schantz 1979.
Board General Art Association of Sweden since 1964, Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde 1980-1989. Royal Academy, of Letters, History and Antiquities and Royal Academy, of Fine Art, Ateneo Veneto, Venice.
History & Antiquities
Royal Academy Letters
Royal Academy Arts
Married Eva Gunnars Bjurstrom, April 27, 1957 (divorced December 1983). 1 child Tova Petra; Married Gorel Cavalli-Bjorkman, June 29, 1985.