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. He also studied at
Statens Lærerskole i forming in Oslo from 1965 to 1967. 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. In the 1950s Granum wrote illustrated
travel reports for the newspaper
Dagbladet, and he was
art critic for the newspaper
Asker og Bærum Budstikke from 1968. 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). In 1970 he established the art school Einar Granum Kunstskole, and was running this school along with his wife. A one-year school from 1973, the school offered a Two-Year curriculum from 1983. In 2001 its name was changed to . Granum died in
Bærum Municipality on 25 February 1992. ==References==