A Life Rooted in the Swedish Landscape Erik Gustav Idar was born on 13 September 1911, in Västerås, Sweden. He spent much of his life within the same borders where he began, eventually passing away in Västerås on 16 November 1972. His early years were shaped by a family connection to medicine, as the son of Carl Olov Idar Olsson and Elsa Wilhelmina Lönnberg, but his path led him toward the canvas. In 1940, he married the artist Karin B…