death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
copenhagen , denmark 21 september 1979 mykines , faroe islands february 23 , 1906 sámal joensen-mikines
 sámal joensen-mikine
sámal joensen-mikines

sámuel joensen-mikines -lrb- 1906-1979 -rrb- was a faroese painter .
he was the first recognised painter of the faroe islands and one of the faroe islands most important artists .
many of his paintings have been displayed on faroese stamps .
joensen-mikines was never in doubt that he would be an artist , and his first inclination was to be musician and play the violin .
but in the summer of 1924 the swedish bird painter william gislander visited the faroe islands for painting the enormous colonies of birds .
gislander was not a great artist , but for the young joensen-mikines he was the idol , whose steps he followed from the very beginning , and who let him make his first brush strokes with the remainders of paint that could squeeze out of gislander 's tubes .
his paintings were inspired both by edvard munch and eugène delacroix , and his trend-setting art was decisive for the development of faeroese art .
the most early works of mikines are from the middle of the 1920s .
he then painted in a fresh and naturalistic style with a precise representation of colour and motifs .
he was asked by the author and artist william heinesen to apply for the `` danske kunstakademi '' , the royal danish art academy .
he was admitted on the painting school in 1928 and had ejnar mikkelsen and later on aksel jørgensen as teachers .
he settled in denmark but was almost every year on mykines in the summer until 1971 .
on mykines he draw and painted as he also made rough sketches which later on became paintings during the winter in denmark .
s j mikines travelled many other places than mykines and also these places were among his motifs .
s j mikines participated in countless exhibitions since his debut in tórshavn in 1927 , where all his paintings were sold and his paintings can be seen many different places .
apart from listaskálin in tórshavn , where a great permanent exhibition is , paintings can be seen in the faroese parliament as well in many banks and savings banks all over the faroes .
paintings of mikines can also be seen in `` statens museum for kunst '' in copenhagen .
with aksel jørgensen and ejner nielsen as his teachers and together with the norwegian painter edvard munch , they inspired mikines ' symbolic , expressive , and often sombre and dramatic portrayals in which death plays a major role .
the darkest paintings are dated around 1934 , which became a fateful year for mikines .
his native village , mikines , was struck by grief when a large part of the male population of the village drowned because of a boat wreck .
furthermore this was the year when mikines ' father died .
mikines has described it as an artistic experience when his father 's coffin was carried through the village .
but later paintings of , for example , his native village were noticeably light and idyllic .
the drama , however , remained an important part of the artistic expression of mikines .
