In the autumn of 1882, Johan Tirén received a scholarship that he used for travel, including with his good friend Bruno Liljefors, around Europe, but also for studies in Jämtland. Despite the long trips to Germany, France and Italy, Tirén always returned to the northern landscapes in his canvases. He also painted mountain landscapes abroad, Liljefors painted animals. In 1884, Tirén requested that the scholarship also apply to trips within the country. However, this application was rejected and with this news in his luggage, he returned home and settled with his new wife, the artist Gerda Tirén, in Oviken in Jämtland, amidst forests, lakes and mountains. Here the artist came to live more and more in the conditions of the Sami people and he took a clear stand for their cause in his art. One could say that Johan Tirén was a painting ethnologist, a storyteller and, figuratively speaking, a recorder of the daily life of the Sami people with all that it entailed in terms of struggle and hardship.
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Johan Melefors, born 1971, founder and CEO of Galleri Melefors, grew up in a family that is the third generation in the auction and antiques industry. Already during his childhood, Johan developed an interest in art and since the early 1990s has collected and traded classic, modern and contemporary art. He started Galleri Melefors in Linköping in 2013 when he moved home from Stockholm to his birthplace of Linköping, which he felt lacked an art store and gallery with a breadth of established collector's art and a well-thought-out and future-oriented contemporary catalog to display.
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