About Jón Stefánsson
Lived 1881 – 1962 (aged 80–81). Jón Stefánsson was an Icelandic painter.
Jón Stefánsson (1881–1962) was Iceland's first modern landscape artists and one of the founders of modern art in Iceland.
He was born in 1881 in Sauðárkrókur. As a student he first studied engineering in Copenhagen, before turning in 1903 to art. He studied at the Teknisk Selekb Skole and at Kristian Zahrtmann's school before meeting Jean Heiberg in Norway in 1908. Together with Henrik Sørensen and Gösta Sandels they went to Paris to study under Matisse. In 1919 Jón's work was exhibited in the Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling in the Den Frie Udstilling in Copenhagen.
The National Gallery of Iceland has a large collection of Jón Stefánsson's work.
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Who was Jón Stefánsson?
Icelandic artist (1881–1962)
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Jón Stefánsson was born in 1881.
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Jón Stefánsson died in 1962 in Reykjavík.
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Jón Stefánsson was a painter.
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Jón Stefánsson was Icelandic.
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