Carl Emil Zoir (1861-1936)

Carl Emil Zoir (1861-1936) badare, olja på duk, 76x116cm, signerad och daterad Emil Zoir 1917, visst slitage, troligen utställd Göteborgs konstförening, Valand 1917. Carl Emil Zoir was born October 28, 1861, in Göteborg (Gothenberg) Sweden and died April 11, 1936, in the same city. He was a painter, drawer, and graphic artist. His parents were Johannes Karlson, a carpenter, and Johanna Andersson. He was married in 1894 to the artist Hildegard Zoir, nee Rygård. Following his studies at the Technical School in his hometown, where he studied until 1880, Zoir pursued for many years a very cosmopolitan existence. In the early 1880's he spent time first in England, then in America, where he studied for several years at the Institute of Fine Arts in Boston. He then studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1890-94), after which he again traveled to the USA (1894-95). After that he lived in Paris for two years, but continued to travel, spending time in France, Italy, Germany and othe