Concretists, the [Swed. Konkretisterna].
Swedish group of artists active in the early 1950s. The members were the painters (Olof) Lennart Rodhe ( b 1916), Olle Bonnier ( b 1925), Pierre Olofsson ( b 1921), Karl-Axel Ingemar Pehrson ( b 1921) and Lage Johannes Lindell (1920–80) and the sculptor Arne Jones (1914–76). With a number of other artists they had exhibited in Ung konst (Young art) in Stockholm in 1947 and came to be called ‘1947 års män' (‘Men of the Year 1947'). In an article in Konstrevy in 1947, Sven Alfons ( b 1918; painter and writer on art history) saw a common element in their work and described these artists as ‘young Goth[ic]s'.