Karl Kvaran

Karl Kvaran (November 17, 1924 – August 9, 1989) was an Icelandic painter and draughtsman. He is considered one of the principal exponents of the geometric abstractionist school of painting in Iceland in the early sixties.

Education Kvaran studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík (1943–45) and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. He also studied under Peter Rostrup Bøyesen.

Life He was born in Borðeyri in western Iceland and died in Reykjavík.

At the beginning of the 1950s Kvaran abandoned figurative art for geometrical abstraction, using pure, uniform color to create two-dimensional geometric forms. His work also featured in the 1998 National Gallery of Iceland exhibition "Icelandic 20th Century Art".

The National Gallery of Iceland showed a retrospective of Kvaran's work in November 2010.