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Born 1909 in Höfn, Hornafjodur in Iceland. Svavar Guðnason studied
in 1935 until 1936 at the Academy of Art, and in 1938 for a short period
with Léger in Paris. During the war, he lived in Copenhagen where
he joined both the exhibition group Høst, and became involved
in the group named by the small magazine Helhesten.
Guðnason was inspired by the cubistic expressions og Léger
until 1940, when his paintings evolved in a more spontanic and abstract
direction with colorful surfaces and squares together with rhythmical
lines.
Like everybody else involved in Høst, Svavar Guðnason joined
the international Cobra movement.
Svavar Guðnason was not represented at the two large Cobra exhibitions
in Amsterdam and Liegé, but he exhibited at many other places,
among these Salon des Surindépendants in Paris in 1950, and his
work was reproduced in the magazine Cobra number 1 (published in Denmark)
and number 5 (published in Germany).
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