Johan Falkman was born in Trelleborg, Sweden, October 22, 1967. After High-school Falkman studied academic drawing, sculpture and painting at Dimitar Rangatchews Art-school in Malmö. During the summer of 1988 he studied old-master painting at Ernst Fuchs’ school in Reichenau, Austria, for the still-life painter Susanne Steinbacher, who had specialized in Jan van Eyck’s Mich-technique: a combination of oil and egg-tempera.

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In 1990 Falkman moved to America to study portrait-painting at The National Academy of Design. In 1991 he was accepted to Pratt Institute for further studies in painting, drawing, graphics, sculpture and art-history; he studied conservation, methodology and philosophy.

Falkman received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Highest Honors in 1994 and was awarded The Pratt Circle Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. The following year he was awarded The Pratt Institute’s Certificate of Excellence/Outstanding Merit Award in the School of Art and Design. He was also the recipient of The American Scandinavian Society Cultural Grant Award 1995. Falkman continued his studies at Pratt for an additional three years, during which he specialized in painting, art-history, Greek mythology and Venetian reaissance.

Johan Falkman follows the naturalistic, symbolic and expressionistic school. He is especially interested in late 19th century German painting, with a special admiration for Lovis Corinth, Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, the Austrian painter Ferdinand Hodler and the artists who were once part of ”Die Brücke”, along with the Spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga.