Barbro Nilsson

Barbro Nilsson née Lundberg (1899–1983) was a Swedish textile artist who is remembered in particular for her large tapestries, including the one she produced in collaboration with Sven Erixson for the Gothenburg Concert Hall in 1939.

When her father was appointed manager of the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in 1904, the family moved to Stockholm where she was trained in hand weaving at Johanna Brunsson's school from the age of 14.

[1] In the 1920s, Barbro Lundberg established a studio on Mäster Samuelsgatan in Stockholm, receiving a series of orders from the Salén clothing company.

Thanks to the large travel grant he was awarded, the family spent the next three years in Rome where their son, the photographer Pål Nils Nilsson was born in 1929.

Among her finest creations are her seven woven works for [[Sydkraft}Sydsvenska Kraft]] symbolizing natural forces such as the sun and gushing water.