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Mikael Wahrby

Mikael Wahrby

b. 1952, Stockholm

Mikael Wahrby has become known as a master of depicting light and shadow, often in detailed, black and white, prints. He brings forth the objects and the rooms themselves, giving them life, often through dramatic lighting and sophisticated shading patterns. In 2014 he was awarded the Nils G. Stenqvist's memory fund scholarship for his "love for the opportunities of the copper plate" and his "love of the motives, as well as to the craft itself." 

Mikael Wahrby is something of an institution in Swedish printmaking. In 1977, he graduated from the Royal Institute of Art and has since been working in this very special field of his, of which 10 years were spent as a lector at the institution where he once studied.

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The plate is covered before etching
The plate is colored with ink
Mikael Wahrby is holding an etched copper plate
The whole plate is covered in ink and then wiped off, leaving ink only in the indentations created by the acid. The plate and a damp paper is then put together under high pressure to transfer the image from the plate onto the paper.

Artworks by Mikael Wahrby

Articles about the artist

master

30 January 2024

Come along when the intaglio printmaking master Mikael Wahrby creates his new Stockholm etchings

the water palace

8 February 2022

Mikael Wahrby's new artwork at the Liljevalchs Spring salon

most sold 2021

17 December 2021

Our most sold editions 2021

stockholm spring

10 May 2021

New Stockholm etchings by Mikael Wahrby has become a sign of spring, just like Vårsalongen at Liljevalchs. This year Slussen and Pålsundet are depicted.

most sold 2020

4 January 2021

Our most sold artworks 2020

stockholm towers

14 January 2020

Portraits of five Stockholm's most emblematic towers

popup västermalm

7 October 2019

100 sqm of art on Kungsholmen 10-13 October

stockholmiana

22 January 2019

Mikael Wahrby's etched depictions of classical Stockholm views

advent calendar

1 December 2018

ed. art's artists select their favourite artworks, one per day until Christmas

the stockholm wanderer

15 January 2018

Mikael Wahrby has made four masterly Stockholm etchings