Happy Birthday to Icelandic painter Einar Hákonarson, born this day in 1945.
What follows is the biography from his website:
Einar Hákonarson (b. 14th of January 1945, Reykjavík, Iceland) is one of Iceland's best known artists. He is an expressionistic and figurative painter who brought the figure back into Icelandic painting in 1968. He is a pioneer in the Icelandic art scene and art education. He has been called “The crusader of the painting”, due to his involvement in those conflicts many Icelandic painters have had with the public fine art centers over the last 20 years.
Einar Hákonarson was raised in Kleppsholt, Reykjavík. He started to paint and draw at a very young age. His father was a part time artist and his 2 uncles were avid art lovers which was uncommon at that time in Iceland. Hákonarson was only 15 years old when he was accepted to The National Art School of Iceland. There he received his education for the next 4 years following which he went abroad to Gothenburg Sweden and to study at Valand Art University where he received influence from new modes of art and was influenced by figurative painting.
Whilst Hákonarson was still studying in Sweden he won the Nordic countries art prize after an exhibition in Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen Denmark. He won a prize in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for his printmaking, and an international printmaking prize in Ljubljana, former Yugoslavia, for a series of pictures after a trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
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