Einar Granum (30 June 1920 – 25 February 1992) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator, writer and educator.
He is known for founding the art school Einar Granum Kunstfagskole [no] in Oslo.
[1] Granum studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1937 to 1941, and further at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts from 1945 to 1948 under Per Krohg and Aage Storstein.
[2] He is represented in the Norwegian National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design with a drawing from 1958 titled Seks av byens kjøtere følger meg overalt.
[1] His books include Vi tegner og maler ("Drawing and painting", 1968), Vagabond i Oslo by ("Vagabond in the city of Oslo", 1969), Vi ser på kunst ("We look at art", 1976), and Anvendt kunstanatomi ("Applied art anatomy", 1987).