Emil Westman | |
Birth Date: | 13 March 1894 |
Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
Death Date: | 19 June 1935 |
Death Place: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
Occupation: | Artist |
Family: | Gunnar Westman (son) |
Emil Westman (b. 13 March 1894, Stockholm, Sweden; d. 19 June 1935, Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Swedish-Danish artist.[1] [2]
Westman studied at Herlufsholm School and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. He moved to Copenhagen in 1913 and became a Danish citizen in the same year and was taught by Kristian Zahrtmann. His artwork was exhibited at a solo exhibition in Copenhagen and Svendborg in 1922. He was one of the founding members of the Swedish-Danish art school Koloristerne in 1931.
Some of his work is held at the British Museum in London.[3]
He was the father of Gunnar Westman.