Eyfells, Johann
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Description: Icelandic-born artist produces large-scale sculpture in molten metals.
Metal sculpture by contemporary artist Johann Eyfells Eyfells, revolutionary sculptor, art professor at the University of Central Florida for over 30 years, one-time architect and son of an Icelandic landscape painter, is known to many in Central Florida as the Grandfather of Sculpture. Born in 1923 in Reykjavik, Iceland, he studied at several universities earning a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1953 and later a master's degree in fine art in 1964. In 1949, Jóhann married Kristin Halldorsdottir, former Icelandic model and dress designer, who made her own career side by side with her husband mastering in fine art, sculpture and photography. Jóhann worked as an architect, artist and teacher in Iceland and the United States until 1969, when he and Kristin moved to Florida. There he continued to work as an artist and professor of art at the University of Central Florida.
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| Description: | Jóhann Eyfells, revolutionary sculptor, art professor and son of an Icelandic landscape painter, known to many in Central Florida as the Grandfather of Sculpture produces abstract sculptures utilizing the various transformational properties of metals and has represented his homeland at the 45th Venice Biennale and in the United Nations' |
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