Gösta Adrian-Nilsson

Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (2 April 1884 – 29 March 1965), usually referred to as GAN, was a Swedish artist and writer. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Swedish modernist art movement. His style was fluid with changing trends and contained elements of Cubism, futurism, Expressionism,

His works primarily featured very masculine men, particularly sailors, labourers, and athletes, and elements of industry, such as factories, machines, and cars. His own art style became more abstract, influenced by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. and was buried at Norra Kyrkogården (Northern Cemetery) in Lund. Following the end of World War I, Andersson changed his name to Edvin Ganborg, a nod to Adrian-Nilsson's alias GAN, "to indicate his alliance with the artist." The two fell out of contact for a period, wherein Andersson had married and had two children, but they reconnected in 1935. For several decades, alongside his full-time job as a machinist, he worked as an art dealer in Norrköping selling Adrian-Nilsson's paintings.