Erró (born Guðmundur Guðmundsson in 1932 in

Ólafsvík Ólafsvík () is a small town in Iceland on the northern side of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. At one point in the 17th and 18th centuries, commercial vessels sailed between Ólafsvík and Denmark, and the village was one of the larger trading ports ...

, Iceland) is a

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts al ...

and painter, who is best known for his painted pop art collages of images from comic books and advertisements."Have you heard of the Lichtenstein of Iceland?"
Artspace, Retrieved 30 July 2018. He lives in France and Spain.

Career

Erró studied art in

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and in

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

, and has resided in Paris, Thailand, and on the island of

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for most of his life. In 1989 he donated a large collection of his works to the Reykjavik Arts Museum, which has put part of it on permanent display and opened a website where the whole collection can be visited. A major retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

(

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) in 2015. In 2010 he was accused of

plagiarism Plagiarism is the fraudulent representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.From the 1995 '' Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary'': use or close imitation of the language and thought ...

Brian Bolland Brian Bolland (; born 26 March 1951)Salisbury, Mark, ''Artists on Comic Art'' (Titan Books, 2000) , p. 11 is a British comics artist. Best known in the United Kingdom as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology '' 2 ...

for copying his work uncredited and selling it.

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Erró
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Portrait of Erró
by Braun-Vega 1932 births Living people Icelandic painters Postmodern artists Pop artists People involved in plagiarism controversies 20th-century Icelandic people Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal Icelandic contemporary artists {{Iceland-painter-stub