Emil Westman


Emil Westman was a Swedish-Danish artist.
Westman studied at Herlufsholm School and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. He moved to Copenhagen in 1913 and became a Danish citizen in the same year and was taught by Kristian Zahrtmann. His artwork was exhibited at a solo exhibition in Copenhagen and Svendborg in 1922. He was one of the founding members of the Swedish-Danish art school Koloristerne in 1931.
Some of his work is held at the British Museum in London.
He was the father of Gunnar Westman.