Gunnar Cederschiöld

Gunnar Cederschiöld was a Swedish author, artist, school director, and fencer.

Biography

Gunnar Cederschiöld was born as Mathias Gunnar Cederschiöld on 30 July 1887, in Skåne, Sweden. He graduated secondary school in Gothenburg in 1906. He studied painting at Valand Academy in Gothenburg, and continued his art studies in Copenhagen, followed by Paris at Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and as a private student under painter Théophile Steinlen.
As a writer he became known first through letters on Paris to Swedish newspapers, then during and after World War I through lively and vivid depictions which, even when having the character of novels, by their type are skilled journalism. They are collected in a series of books illustrated with Cederschiöld's quickly accomplished drawings.
In 1919 Cederschiöld was managing director of AB France-Afrique in Paris, president of the Académie Scandinave in Paris, and the director for Société genérale des Allumettes in 1927.
He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Gunnar Cederschiöld was married to the daughter and only child of sociologist Gustaf F. Steffen. The couple had three children.