Biography
Henning Nyberg (b. Dalhem, Gotland, Sweden 1903 - d. 1964) studied at The Byam Shaw School of Art in London (1922-25) and at the Royal Academy Schools (1925-26). He apprenticed at a theatre decoration studio between 1926-1928 when he participated in the stage decoration for the Westminster Theatre. He travelled to Rome, Germany, Florence, Paris, New York, Venice and the Netherlands. In 1934-1935 he designed costumes and scenery for the film Bosambo, the ruler of the jungle, directed by Alexander Korda. During WWII he was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Regimeny Intelligence Corps and was appointed Major in 1943 as well as being an assistant military attache at the British Embassy in Stockholm. He was awarded a British war medal and the King Haakon VII Freedom Medal.
Among his public works is a fountain group in Portland stone and lead for Chilham Castle, Kent. He exhibited at Wertheim Gallery, Storran Gallery and Archer Gallery in London as well as at Ljungby in Sweden in 1952. He participated in the large watercolour exhibition in Delft, Holland, in the 1950s. His painted still life, portraits and landscapes in oil, watercolour and etchings and woodcuts. He painted the portraits Jomo Kenyatta and Colonel John S. Wilson, who was the English leader of the Norwegian voluntary movement in Norway during the Second World War, commissioned by the Lingeklubben, Oslo. His artworks are at the Salford Art Gallery, Usher Gallery, Lincoln and the Tate, London.
