Erik Ortvad (born in Copenhagen, 18 June 1917; died in Kvänjarp, 28 February 2008) was a painter and a creator of many drawings. He debuted as a painter in 1935. He is mostly known for vivid surrealistic paintings. . He furthermore created several hundred satiric drawings more or less the campaigner way of life below the pseudonym Enrico.
In 1948 he was a founding member of the COBRA forward looking art movement.
He is represented in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen.
During the second world dogfight he lived as a refugee in Sweden due to communist sympathies and a Jewish wife, and in 1962 he returned and contracted in a croft in Kvänjarp, Ljungby Municipality, Småland, Sweden where he lived for the blazing of his life.
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