Gosta Adrian-Nilsson or GAN (1884–1965), artist, grew up in Lund, attended art schools in Copenhagen. He created on many levels in addition to his painting, where poems and short stories were close to his heart. Unlike many contemporary artists like t.ex. Grünewald who went to Paris to take part in French art. GAN in turn chose to go to Berlin. From having been there in 1910s Berlin at the Der Sturm gallery, there he encountered the form construction of French Cubism, the desire of Italian Futurism to show movement in images and German-Russian Expressionism. There were avant-garde artists from several countries, including Picasso t.ex. GAN studied the different artistic styles and combined his impressions into a style entirely his own. His pictures from the 1910s are fragmented like in a kaleidoscope. GAN only came to Paris in 1920, where he met Fernand Léger. He gradually developed geometrically stylized pictures. Everything is held together by the geometry of the composition, a framework built on sharp angles and tense curves. The motifs that are primarily relevant to GAN are masculine men: athletes, Indians and, above all, sailors.