At the top of Skólavörðuholt Hill in Reykjavík you’ll find a unique building surrounded by a beautiful sculpture garden. This is the Einar Jónsson Museum. But who was Einar and what kind of art did he make?

Einar Jónsson was born in 1874 and decided at a young age to become an artist, even though he’d never seen a work of art or visited an art museum. Later in life, he met his wife Anna and together they founded the first art museum in Iceland, the Einar Jónsson Museum.

This book tells the fascinating story of Einar and Anna and explores some of the artworks that became the center of their lives. Einar created some of Iceland’s most iconic sculptures, including the statue of Iceland’s founder Ingólfur Arnarson on Arnarhóll Hill and the statue Outlaw, located just outside Reykjavík’s old cemetery.

Margrét Tryggvadóttir and Linda Ólafsdóttir have earned well-deserved acclaim for their collaborative books, which are both educational and beautifully crafted, appealing to young readers and adults alike. Their children’s books, Here is Iceland! and Here is Reykjavík, received the Fjöruverðlaun Women’s Literary Prize and were nominated for the Icelandic Children’s Literature Prize. Additionally, Linda was awarded the Reykjavík Children’s Book Award for her illustrations in these books.