Göransson's early years in Gothenburg
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 Åke
Göransson lived for many years in a one-room flat in Landala,
a district of Gothenburg, Sweden, together with his mother and siblings.
He started to draw at an early age and dreamt of becoming an artist.
His family was however poor and Åke had to start working as
an apprentice at a hairdresser salon already at the age of thirteen.
The work was hard and tough, with long working days. After a couple
of years Åke Göransson started combining his work as
a hairdresser with art studies, first by correspondence at Hermod's
and then at the Valand College in Gothenburg, where he was taught
by Tor Bjurström. Many of Bjurström's pupils, including
Åke Göransson, were later given the collective name "Göteborgskoloristerna"
(the "Gothenburg colorists"). One of Åke Göransson's
fellow painters was Inge Schiöler who just like Göransson
later developed schizophrenia.
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