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Svavar Guðnason

Svavar Guðnason (1909–1988) was an Icelandic painter and draftsperson.

Also recorded as Svavar GuÐnason · Svavar Gudnason · Gudnason Svavar

Biography

Born at Höfn in 1909, died in Reykjavík in 1988.

The recorded working language is Icelandic.

Work by Svavar Guðnason is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art and Musée National d'Art Moderne.

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Places

Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.

  • Reykjavík
Death or burial
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  • Höfn

    Birth place

The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 18 August 2026.

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