biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1958)
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| biography:
| Landscape painter, born in Rútsstaða-Suðurkot, Iceland. He was the first artist to portray the Icelandic landscapes in all their vivid variety and ethereal colour. He was given a generous state grant to travel and study abroad (1907), where he came into contact with the Impressionists. He turned to water-colours, and to interpreting Icelandic folk-tales. He bequeathed his home in Reykjavík and his private collection of paintings to the nation as an art gallery. |
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