Arvid Kornelius Jorm (1892 – 1964) was a Swedish painter and graphic artist.Svenska Konstnärer: Biografisk Handbok, Redaktionsgruppen Väbo Főrlag: Vänersborg, 1987. Jorm was born Arvid Johansson in Gothenburg in 1892, the son of a shopkeeper.Svenskt Konstnärslexikon, Allhems Főrlag: Malmő, 1957. He changed his name to Arvid Jorm in 1919.Landsarkivet Göteborg. He studied at the Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg under Axel Erdmann and Birger Simonsson, and in Copenhagen under Astrid Holm. He did study trips to France, Italy and North Africa. His work included Italian landscapes and town pictures, and Swedish landscapes, coastal and harbour pictures.Lexikon för Konst, AB Nordiska Upplagsböcker: Stockholm, 1958. He worked in oils, watercolours, woodcuts, lithographs and etching. Jorm's art decorated a number of buildings in Sweden including the ceiling of Skene Church, Skövde court house, and Liseberg in Gothenburg. He died in Gothenburg in 1964.
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