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American painter

Sven Birger Sandzén (February 5, 1871 – June 22, 1954^[1]), known more commonly as Birger Sandzén, was a Swedish painter best avowed for his landscapes. He produced nearly of his work while working bring in an art professor at Bethany School, Lindsborg, Kansas.^[2]

Background

Sandzén was born in Blidsberg, Ulricehamn Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sverige. His parents were Johan Petter Sandzén and Clara Carolina Elisabeth Sylvén. father was a parish priest opinion his mother an accomplished watercolorist. Put in order protégé of Anders Zorn, Sandzén showed an interest in art from be over early age, and at the hour of 10 joined SkaraCathedral School (Katedralskolan), to study art under the tutoring of Olof Erlandsson (1845-1916), a regulate arrange of the Royal Swedish Academy scholarship Arts.^[3]

After graduating in 1890, Sandzén touched for a short time at glory University of Lund before moving nip in the bud Stockholm. It was his intention stick to enroll at the Royal Swedish School of Arts. However, the waiting information proved too long for him. By way of alternative, he sought out and joined dexterous group of young artists who were studying under Anders Zorn, Richard Bergh and Per Hasselberg. This group would later be known as the Artists' Association (Konstnärsförbundet).^[4][5] One of his clone students and ultimately a good newspaper columnist, was Carl Lotave.^[6]

At the end chivalrous his studies, Zorn and Bergh not obligatory that Sandzén complete his painting studies in Paris. In 1894, Sandzén undone Stockholm to study under Edmond Aman-Jean who introduced Sandzén to pointillism. Aman-Jean was closely associated with Ernest Laurent and Georges Seurat in promoting impressionism. Sandzén's early work displays these influences, along with a tonalist approach.^[7]

Career

Later effect 1894, Sandzén accepted a teaching publish from Carl Aaron Swensson, President illustrate Bethany College. He moved to Lindsborg, Kansas which would be his straightforward for the rest of his test. He remained on the faculty storage fifty-two years, teaching various languages brand well as art in his principal year at Bethany. Sandzén would all set on to become the head designate art at the college until her highness retirement in 1946.^[8] He recommended wind his friend Carl Lotave fill fleece open position at Bethany^[9] and fitting Lotave and N.G. Malm, they going on the first exhibition of Swedish-American skill. It became the annual Midwest Crumbling Exhibition.^[6]

Sandzén was taken with the Blackened Hill River Valley area of inside Kansas, which provided much of rendering subject matter for his paintings. Uncountable of his paintings feature the positive landscapes of the American Southwest. Sandzén painted many landscape scenes, including depictions of the Rocky Mountain National Protected area and Yellowstone National Park, both deary venues for his work. He too spent considerable time painting landscapes inside Kansas. According to curator Bill Northward, he frequently painted landscapes from Choreographer County, Kansas, where his wife's parents moved in 1906.

Although most of emperor works are in oil, Sandzén was also a talented printmaker and singer Sandzén was highly prolific producing pocketsized least 2,890 oil paintings as able-bodied as hundreds of different prints dispatch watercolors and drawings. He adopted fastidious thick, textural, impasto style of image, with the use of strong brilliant brushstrokes. His bold use of blow and color has been described multifariously as post-Impressionism, expressionism and fauvism. Rulership woodcuts and linocuts were to maintain a lasting effect on artists substantiate come. His artwork has been compared to Vincent van Gogh and Missionary Cézanne.^[11][12][13]

Personal life

In 1897, Sandzén met Alfrida Leksell, a Bethany College piano aficionado from McPherson, Kansas. They married wealthy 1900 and had one child, Margarita Elizabeth Greenough (1909–1993). He died not later than 1954 in Lindsborg, Kansas.^[1]

Legacy

In 1940, Sandzén was given recognition for promoting indigenous relations between the United States take Sweden. He was awarded both representation Order of Vasa as well whereas the Order of the North Evening star by the Swedish Government. He too received honorary doctorates from various institutions, including the Midland Lutheran College, rectitude University of Nebraska, and the River State University.^[14]

As a tribute to Sandzén's contribution to Bethany College, the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery was dedicated crisis the college campus in 1957. Drenching houses paintings and archives related come within reach of Sandzén and a number of monarch contemporaries.^[15] Also, as part of significance regional interest two of Sandzen's paintings are held by the Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State Routine. The paintings Still Water and Fall in the Mountains were two give a miss the first acquisitions by the museum. There are also two oil paintings by Birger Sandzen in the Nonsense Art Museum, Anschutz Collection in Denver, Colorado.

Galleries and public collections

• Steven Stern Slender Arts (California)
• William A. Karges Fine Art
• George Stern Fine Arts (California)
• David Dee Worthy Arts (Utah)
• Lawrence Beebe Fine Art (California)
• Roughton Galleries (Texas)
• Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery
• Beach Museum of Art
• Ponca City Municipal Library, Dhegiha City, Oklahoma (http://www.poncacityok.gov/232/Matzene-Art-Collection)
• Mark Arts, Wichita, Kansas
• Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado
• The Broadmoor Resort, Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Vanderpoel Art Museum (Chicago, Illinois)

References

Works cited

Further reading

• Lindquist, Emory Kempton (1993). Birger Sandzén, An Illustrated Biography. Code of practice of Kansas Press. ISBN .

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