Although Waldemar Sjolander was actually born in Sweden, in 1908, his art career took off after immigrating to Mexico following World War II. He studied art in Sweden, traveling to Mexico several times and finally decided to settle in Mexico City, describing it 'as a kind of “tropical paradise” relatively unaffected by the vices of civilization and also free from the long winters of Sweden' . His work was in painting, sculpture and printmaking. He often made the tools he required for his art.Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco helped him get established in the Mexican art world. Later in his career his work became more abstracted, his color use bolder, as evidenced in the painting below. He lived to be 80 years old.
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