Birger Sandzen Paintings
American, 1871-1954
Birger Sandzén was encouraged from an early age to pursue his interest in art. Sandzén’s formal education began at the Skara School in Skara, Sweden at the age of ten. At Skara, he studied with Olaf Erlandsson who introduced the young artist to oil painting.
After graduating from Skara in 1890, Sandzén studied for a semester at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. The following year, he went to Stockholm intending to study at the Royal Academy. Due to a lack of vacancy, Sandzén instead studied with one of Sweden's best painters and etchers, Anders Zorn, as well as with Richard Bergh, and Per Hasselberg in what was later to become the Artists League. Early in 1894, Sandzén took a class taught by Aman-Jean, who introduced him to Pointillism. Sandzen used a Pointillist, or Tonalist, approach to painting in his work until around 1910.
Sandzén learned about an opening on the faculty of Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas and immediately applied. He was hired by the college and relocated to Kansas in the fall of 1894. In 1899 he was appointed principal art teacher and head of the Art Department. Sandzén held both positions until his retirement in 1946.
Sandzén first visited the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in 1908 and began painting in the Colorado Springs area around 1916. The artist made his first trip to New Mexico in 1918 and was a frequent visitor to Santa Fe and Taos in the years that followed. Sandzén spent the summers of 1923-24 teaching at the Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado (presently the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center). He also taught at Chappell House (the forerunner to the Denver Art Museum), Utah State Agricultural College, Stephens College, the University of Michigan, and the Kansas City Art Institute. Though he traveled often, Sandzén continued to live in Lindsborg until his death in 1954.(Biography provided by David Cook Galleries)
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Artist: Birger Sandzen
Smoky Valley Farm, Lindsborg Kansas 1949 Oil on Panel Hay Shocks Farmhouse Trees
By Birger Sandzen
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
A wonderful 1949 oil painting on panel by Birger Sandźen depicting a farmhouse in a Lindsborg, Kansas landscape with hay shocks, trees and clouds.
Cori North of the Birger Sandzén M...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Birger Sandzen Paintings
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Oil, Panel
"FLINT HILLS" 49 x 57 FRAME ORIGINALLY FROM HIS DAUGHTER'S COLLECTION
By Birger Sandzen
Located in San Antonio, TX
Birger Sandzen
(1871-1954)
Kansas / Colorado Artist
Image Size: 40.5 x 48
Frame Size: 49.5 x 57 Hand carved gold leaf frame.
Medium: Oil
"The Flint Hills"
Has his daughter's name on the verso.
This painting was donated to Bethany college by Birger's Daughter. The college owned it for many years and then about 8 years ago it was sent to auction. It sold to an art dealer from Santa Fe, it was acquired from a gallery by a friend of mine who has owned it since that time.
Biography
Birger Sandzen (1871-1954)
Born Blidsberg, Sweden, Feb. 5, 1871; died Lindsborg, June 19, 1954.
Painter, specialized in landscapes. Etcher. Engraver. Lithographer.
Teacher. Attended the College and Academy of Skara as a pupil of Olof
Erlandsson.
After graduation from Skara College, Sandzén spent a semester at Lund
University attending art history lectures and continuing the study of
French. Following Lund University he went to the technical high
school at Stockholm, where he studied perspective and form drawing.
Sandzén joined a group of young artists and they rented a studio at
Anders Zorn's suggestion. They received instruction from Zorn as well
as Richard Bergh, a well-known portrait painter and Per Hasselberg, one
of Sweden's best sculptors.
Sandzén then went to Paris to study with Aman Jean, where he began to
associate with American students in the French studies. On
returning home in 1894, a family friend sent Sandzén a booklet about
Bethany College, Lindsborg and the town called "Little Sweden."
Sandzén moved to Lindsborg in 1894 to teach French, voice, art history,
drawing and painting at Bethany College where he remained on the
faculty until 1946.
He first painted in the Colorado Springs, CO area in 1916, and became a
frequent visitor to Santa Fe and Taos, NM beginning in 1918.
Sandzén spent the summers of 1923-24 teaching at the Broadmoor Academy
in Colorado Springs (presently the Colorado Springs Fine Arts
Center). Sandzén also taught at Chappell House (the forerunner to
the Denver Art Museum), Utah State Agricultural College, Stephens
College, the University of Michigan, and the 188 Kansas City Art
Institute.
Sandzén's style of painting is unusual in its thick and heavy
application of impasto in bold and bright color combinations,
interpreting the landscape of the western United States. He is
known for very colorful renderings of mountain lakes with boulders,
cypress and aspen trees and moonrises along waterways.
Sandzén was an important advocate for art in the region, spending time
talking to people about art, organizing exhibitions and establishing
art clubs. He donated artwork to the local art club to help raise money
for the purchasing of art books for the library, the financing of
exhibitions, and the occasional awarding of a scholarship.
He painted murals for the Halstead Post Office, Where Kit Carson Camped, in 1941, for the Lindsborg Post Office, Smoky River, in 1938, and for the Belleville Post Office, Kansas Stream, in 1939. He illustrated three books, With Brush and Pencil (1905), In the Mountains, (1925), The Smoky Valley, (1922).
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Lindquist, Emory Kempton. Birger Sandzén: An Illustrated Biography. (Lawrence University Press of Kansas, 1993); American Magazine of Art, (Jan. 1927); International Studio ( Apr. 1923); Kansas Teacher (Nov. 1927); Greenough, Charles P. The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzén. (Lindsborg : Bethany College, 1952); Fielding, Mantle. Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, with an Addendum containing Corrections and Additional Material on the Original Entries. Compiled by James F. Carr. New York: James F. Carr Publ., 1965.; Newlin, Gertrude Dix (Development of Art in Kansas. Typed Manuscript, 1951); Sain, Lydia. Kansas Artists, compiled by Lydia Sain from 1932 to 1948. Typed Manuscript, 1948.; WW26-27; American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-194727; Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936- v.1=1936-37 v.3= 1941-42 v.2=1938-39 v.4=1940-47. 1, 2, 3, 4; Reinbach, Edna, comp. “Kansas Art and Artists”, in Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. v. 17, 1928. p. 571-585.; A &C KS por il.; Dunbier, Paul. The Dunbier Value Guide; Over 1200 Painters in the Western U.S. Before 1920. Scottsdale: Altamira Press, 1981.; Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1974. Wiebe, Joanna K. “Kansans Cared About their New Deal Art”, in Wichita Eagle Beacon, May 21, 1972. p.1E & 7E-----. “Local Legends Live in Art”, in Wichita Eagle Beacon, May 22, 1972. p.1A & 3A-----. “Age Enhances Fort Scott Mural”, in Wichita Eagle Beacon, May 23, 1972. p.1A & 8A-----. “Halstead Legend Perpetuated”, in Wichita Eagle Beacon, May 24, 1972. p.1A & 16A -----. “Scenics, Murals and Lithographs Included in Kansas New Deal Art”, in Wichita Eagle Beacon, May 25, 1972. p.15A.; Samuels, Peggy. Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1976.; Snow, Florence. “Kansas Art and Artists”, in Kansas Teacher Aug-Sept. 1927, p.18-19; Oct. 1927, p.10, 12; Nov. 1927, p.11-12; Dec. 1927, p.7-8; Jan. 1928, p. 14-15; Feb. 1928, p.20-21; Mar. 1928, p.10-12; Apr. 1928, p. 16-17; May 1928, p.14, 16; June-July 1928, p.13-14.; American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-194724/12/18/20/22; KAC; Dawdy 2: Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Volume 2. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1981.; Annual Exhibition of the Artists of Kansas City and Vicinity (Kansas City Art Institute, 1915-21) 1915, 1917, 1920-21; Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition (Kansas City: Kansas City Art Institute, 1920-1942 Mines, Cynthia. For the Sake of Art: The Story of an Art Movement in Kansas. s.l. Mines, 1979.) 1922-23, 1925. 1929-33, 1935-40; Beach; Porter, Dean A, Teresa Hayes Ebie, Suzan Campbell. Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950. South Bend, IN: Snite Museum of Art, 1999.; Bruner, Ronald Irwin. New Deal Art Workers in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. Thesis. University of Denver, 1979.; 100 Years of Art...
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He first painted in the Colorado Springs, CO area in 1916, and became a
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in Colorado Springs (presently the Colorado Springs Fine Arts
Center). Sandzén also taught at Chappell House (the forerunner to
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College, the University of Michigan, and the 188 Kansas City Art
Institute.
Sandzén's style of painting is unusual in its thick and heavy
application of impasto in bold and bright color combinations,
interpreting the landscape of the western United States. He is
known for very colorful renderings of mountain lakes with boulders,
cypress and aspen trees and moonrises along waterways.
Sandzén was an important advocate for art in the region, spending time
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