Modernist oil on canvas by Einar Emland, framed, signed

Nils allan einar emland, originally hansson, born june 30, 1916 in ystad, died august 13, 1994 in malmö, was a swedish painter. He was the son of the stonemason olof hansson and the weaver johanna hansson. He studied, among other things, at the scanian school of painting in malmö, under jules schyl at the technical school, under wilhelm grüttrud in oslo, under peter rostrup bøyesen in copenhagen and at the académie de la grande chaumière in paris 1946–1951. He made study trips to france and the united states. Emland was a very prolific artist in a distinctive expressionist style in thick layers of oil paint, often compared to artists such as edvard munch, carl kylberg, emil nolde, camille corot and jean-françois millet. The motifs were often faceless figure compositions, preferably with social emphasis and robust design, landscapes and still lifes. His upbringing in poor circumstances in the countryside outside ystad has left a deep impression on his art, and it was usually the simple, hard life in earlier 20th-century scania and bohuslän that he depicted in recurring motifs such as "potato pickers", "washers' shoes", " waiting for the boat", "by the sea", "on the way home", "mother and child". Landscape motifs he was often drawn to were rough seas, cliffs, summer forests with waterways, but several trips to bornholm, norrland and norway also left many impressions. He has participated in many solo and group exhibitions and is represented in a large number of swedish museums and public collections, including in ystad, vänersborg, helsingborg, skara and linköping. His background also gave him a strong personal commitment, which became a parallel life's work, to bring art to the people, and his desire was that people could afford to have real art in their homes, not just simple reproductions or mass-produced so-called hay square art.

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