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GuEnason, Svavar
(b Höfn, HornafjörEur, 18 Nov 1909; d Reykjavík, 25 June 1988). Icelandic painter. He was mostly self-taught, apart from a brief period at the Kunstakademi in Copenhagen (1935–6). In 1936–7 he abandoned figurative art by breaking up the motif into simple, fluid supporting structures. In Paris, where he studied for one week with Léger in 1938, he met the painter Asger Jorn and the sculptor Sonja Ferlov Mancoba and strengthened his connections with the Scandinavian avant-garde. His paintings up to 1940 betray a short-lived influence from Miró. GuEnason first achieved public attention at the exhibition Skandinaverne (‘Scandinavians’) at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen in 1939, where he was one of the representatives of Iceland.
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