Discover Europe by Art

National painters

2005 – 2006

Iceland

Painters

We decided on two painters; Muggur and Nína

Pupils in 2nd grade worked with Muggur and pupils in 7th grade worked with Nína

Muggur Nína

The play Dimmalimm by Muggur

-Muggur-

About Muggur• Muggur (Guðmundur

Thorsteinsson) was born on the 5th

of September 1891.• Muggur was 12 years old when he

moved with his family to Denmark and there he learned his art.

• Muggur also studied in Germany, USA and Italy.

• Muggur sailed to Italy 1921 to work on a triptych. On this journey he wrote his famous children´s story Dimmalimm.

• Muggur died in Denmark the 26th of July 1924

The work of MuggurMuggur was versatile artist. He did collages, coal- and chalk pictures. He also made pencil-, watercolours- and oil paintings. Muggur whittled animals and did patchwork etc.Muggur was also know as a good actor. He played in Icelandic movie. He was fond of fairy-tales of knights, trolls and hidden peoples.

And then the work started. The pupils got there guidance from our art teacher, Anna. The theme was trolls.

Christmas greetings: Children of trolls

Watercolours

Picture by 2nd grade pupil

Watercolours

Pictures by pupils in 2nd grade

Silk and silk paint

Halibut

Silk, remnant, wool yarn and skin of a mole

The pupils in 2nd grade performed a play based on Muggur´s story about Dimmalimm.

-Nína-

About Nína• Nína (Jónína Tryggvadóttir) was born

on the 16th of March 1913.• Nína was taught drawing by Ásgrímur

Jónsson, one of the pioneers of Icelandic art. She went to private art school run by painters Finnur Jónsson and Jóhann Briem.

• Nína moved to Copenhagen 1935 to study in Royal Academy of Art and then to Paris 1939.

• Nína studied in New York from 1943 – 1946.

• Nína lived in Paris and New York but visited Iceland a lot.

• Nína married a German-American medical scientist, Alfred L. Copley, who became a wel known painter.

• Nína died in New York 1968.

Nína was not afraid to trynew things in art. Shedid oil paintings, mosaic works, poems and children’s books. She also worked with glass and painted portraits of many of the most beloved Icelandic writers.

The work of Nína

Picture by pupil in 7th grade

Collage

Abstraction - picture by Nína Tryggvadóttir

Pictures by pupils in 7th grade

Liquid poster paint

Once up a time there was a lady, who worked and span,but didn´t not at allwant to have a husband.She just had catssix beautiful, delicate catsand for them she worked

Einu sinni var kona,sem eldaði og spannen langaði ekkert tilað eiga sér mann.Hún átti bara ketti,sex fagrar, fínar kisurog fyrir þeim hún vann.

Kötturinn sem hvarf – The cat who disappeared