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Martin Emond
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Martin Vilhelm Jönsson Emond was born on 21 October 1895 in Tågarp, a village in the agricultural flatlands of Skåne, the son of a barrel maker. That rural origin fed directly into the paintings that would occupy him for four decades - open fields, overcast skies, farms set against the horizon, the unremarkable corners of southern Sweden rendered with unusual emotional weight.
He trained first as a drawing teacher at the Högre konstindustriella skolan in Stockholm, then gained entry to the Royal Institute of Art (Kungliga Konsthögskolan) where he studied under Olle Hjortzberg. The decisive influence came during the 1920s, when study trips to Germany and Austria brought him into contact with early German Expressionism and, above all, the charged figurative work of Oskar Kokoschka. The encounter left a permanent mark - a restlessness in his surfaces, a willingness to distort form in service of feeling.
Back in Sweden, Emond made his public debut in 1922 and quickly became one of the most active exhibitors of his generation. He was a founding member of the artist collective Nio Unga (Nine Young), a group that pushed against academic conventions in Swedish painting of the period, and a regular participant in the exhibition association Färg och Form. In the 1930s he joined the broader Skåne coalition that formed Auragruppen, cementing his position within the regional avant-garde.
His output was wide-ranging. Alongside easel painting in oil and watercolour, he produced lithographs - a medium that suited his interest in strong outlines and tonal contrast. He received public commissions too: stained glass windows for Brågarps kyrka (installed during the church's 1950 restoration) and for Sankta Maria kyrka in Helsingborg, where his glass work appears alongside pieces by Ralph Bergholz and Erik Olson. Works such as "Glumslöv" (1930) entered the collection of Malmö Konstmuseum, and his paintings and works on paper are held at Moderna Museet. He died on 28 April 1965 in Landskrona, not far from where he was born.
On the auction market, Emond's 34 recorded lots on Auctionist have sold predominantly through Skåne-based houses - Skånes Auktionsverk accounts for nearly a third of results, with Garpenhus Auktioner and Crafoord Auktioner Lund also active. The top recorded price is 5,500 SEK for an oil-on-panel interior scene. His oils consistently outperform his prints and watercolours, though all formats appear with some regularity in the regional market.