Guðmundur Einarsson, known as Guðmundur frá (from) Miðdal (August 5, 1895 – May 23, 1963) was an Icelandic artist. He worked in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, graphics, ceramics, photography, and film, and was also a mountaineer and an author.
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Life and career
Guðmundur studied art in Iceland in 1911-13 (with Stefáni Eiríksson) and 1916 (with Ríkarður Jónsson and Þórarin B. Þorláksson), in Copenhagen in 1919-20 and in Munich in 1920–25.
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He worked in media including graphics, watercolors and oils, sculpture, glass, copper, silver, and ceramics as well as photography and film. He was a pioneer of ceramics in Iceland. He also designed jewelry, furniture, gardens, and houses and wrote books, including poetry and the 1946 ''Fjallamenn'', illustrated with his photographs.
[Ari Trausti]
"SAMANDREGNAR UPPLÝSINGAR UM VERKFLOKKA GUÐMUNDAR EINARSSONAR frá MIÐDAL"
May 2018. His style was eclectic and influenced by romanticism; late in his life he also produced abstract works.
His work has been exhibited at the
Oslo Kunstforening
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in Norway and Galerie Paulus in Germany and in group exhibitions including at the
Tate Gallery
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in England and the
Kunsthalle Helsinki
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in Finland.
[ The ]National Museum of Iceland
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has a collection of his photographs and the of his films.[
Guðmundur was also a pioneer of mountaineering in Iceland, an explorer and conservationist, and a keen hunter.
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Personal life
In 1926 Guðmundur married Therese Zeitner, a Bohemian model who was previously married to the chemist Paul Sternberg. They subsequently divorced and he remarried to her daughter Lydia Zeitner-Sternberg, a ceramicist who had come to Iceland in 1929 and was the mother of his son Einar. They had a further two sons and one daughter, including the geologist and author Ari Trausti Guðmundsson. Guðmundur also had a son, Guðmundur, the artist Erró
Erró (born Guðmundur Guðmundsson in 1932 in Ólafsvík, Iceland) is a visual artist and painter, who is best known for his painted pop art collages of images from comic books and advertisements. , by Soffía Kristinsdóttir. Zeitner continued to live in the household until her death; Zeitner-Sternberg's autobiography, ''Lífsganga Lydiu'', was published in 1992."Hver var hann"
''mithdalur.com'', retrieved July 19, 2020.
References
Further reading
* Illugi Jökulsson. ''Guðmundur frá Miðdal''. Seltjarnarnes: Ormstunga, 1997. .
External links
Official website
Icelandic artists
1895 births
1963 deaths
20th-century Icelandic artists
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