42 Facts About Einar Jolin

Einar Jolin was a Swedish painter best known for his decorative and slightly naive Expressionist style.

Einar Jolin painted portraits, still lifes and cityscapes, always accentuating what he called "the beautiful" in his motifs.

Einar Jolin mainly worked in oils and watercolors, using delicate brush strokes and light colors.

Einar Jolin's most noted works are his paintings of Stockholm during the 1910s and 1920s in his trademark naive style.

Einar Jolin journeyed to Africa, India and the West Indies, but favored the countries around the Mediterranean Sea, especially the island of Capri where he exhibited his works.

Einar Jolin had several exhibitions at Liljevalchs konsthall in Stockholm and in 1954, he toured the United States with an exhibition, during which Dag Hammarskjold purchased a painting for his office in the United Nations building.

Einar Jolin was the son of professor Severin Jolin and grandson of actor Johan Christopher Jolin.

Einar Jolin grew up on Kammakargatan 45 in the Jolinska Huset, a three-story townhouse with a garden, built by his grandfather.

The school mainly taught painting techniques and Einar Jolin was more interested in learning about style.

Einar Jolin joined the inner circle at the school, a group of Scandinavian artists who would later become known as De Unga or 1909 ars man.

Together with Grunewald and Leander Engstrom, Einar Jolin joined the Matisse Academy, where their friends from Stockholm had already been accepted as pupils.

At the Academy, Einar Jolin would develop his sense for a stylish line in combination with bright and clean colours in his paintings.

Einar Jolin learned croquis at the academy and developed a natural, spontaneous speed in his brushwork.

Einar Jolin mostly painted models and still life, and during a visit to the south of France in 1911, he made his earliest landscapes.

At the school, Einar Jolin got his first nickname; the other students, as well as Matisse, used to call him "The Puppy" since he was the youngest of the students.

Einar Jolin spent some time in Senlis where he depicted its street life 1913, before returning to Stockholm the following year.

Einar Jolin had planned to return to Paris the following summer, but the outbreak of World War I on 28July 1914, forced him to reconsider his decision.

In 1917, Einar Jolin rented a studio at Kungsbroplan in Stockholm and painted diligently.

Einar Jolin studied Jolin's numerous works and, as at this time the artists sold very few paintings, it came as a surprise to him when Gotthardt bought 16 canvases.

Einar Jolin received seven thousand crowns for the paintings, and at home the same evening he was able to show his parents the money from his first major sales, saying: "Look here, this is what I earned today".

Einar Jolin spent most of 1918 in Copenhagen, where he showed his paintings at an art gallery at Nikolaiplads.

Einar Jolin enjoyed life in the Danish capital, the social life was more spontaneous than in Stockholm and people from different professions, or social standings, mixed with each other in a way that appealed to him.

In 1920, Einar Jolin went on a journey, first to Italy, North Africa and Spain for new international impressions, and then on to India, Africa and the West Indies.

Einar Jolin exhibited his works at galleries in several other countries, and in 1957, the Liljevalchs konsthall hosted a retrospective exhibition featuring over 200 of his paintings.

Einar Jolin continued to paint, mostly still life and portraits, at his studio apartment at Stagneliusvagen 34, in Fredhall.

Einar Jolin spent most summers with his family in Tallberg in the Dalarna County or at Villa San Michele on the island of Capri.

Einar Jolin died on 29August 1976, and is buried at Norra Begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.

Einar Jolin's style deviates from that of the traditional Expressionists, in that he simplifies his motifs in an almost primitive way, painting an imagined reality rather than raw emotions.

Einar Jolin appreciated the cultivated and sophisticated, older painting, and was deeply impressed during his visits to the Louvre, where he was inspired by the works of masters such as Rubens, Watteau and Chardin.

In 1913 to 1914 Einar Jolin started to paint in his own naive interpretation of Expressionism.

Einar Jolin participated with six paintings, three of these were vistas from Stockholm.

Einar Jolin was tired of Isaac Grunewalds increasingly dominant role among the young Swedish artists at that time, a sentiment shared by GAN.

Einar Jolin painted numerous portraits of the Swedish socialites at that time.

But, according to Palmgren, Einar Jolin could be called a Purist since he constantly stressed that colors should be kept pure, contours clear and the composition of the motif orderly.

Einar Jolin started to depict Stockholm when he moved to Fiskargatan, on the tall cliffs of southern Stockholm in 1914.

Einar Jolin divided the view, facing Stadsgarden or Riddarholmen, into smaller frames for his paintings.

Einar Jolin was a strong advocate for the architectural and aesthetic preservation of the capital, as is written in his draft for a pamphlet called Mot strommen.

Einar Jolin wanted to bring out the beautiful and the genuine in the cityscape, as well as restore, what he considered to be distorted parts of the city, to their former glory.

Einar Jolin said of his 1957 retrospective exhibition at the Liljevalchs konsthall:.

Einar Jolin expressed the idea that only through the emotions of an individual could nature be depicted the right way.

In 1957, Einar Jolin received the Prince Eugen Medal from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

At Stockholm auctioneer Bukowski's fall auction in 2009, one of Einar Jolin's paintings sold for 2.53 million crowns.