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We Beat Auction Houses $$$Birger Sandzen (1871-1954)
The
son of a Lutheran minister, Sven Birger Sandzen was born in
Bildsberg, Sweden in 1871. As an adult he would become a son of the
Midwest, famous for his landscapes of the Rocky Mountains.
Sandzen graduated from the College of Skara in Sweden in 1890, then
studied at the University of Lund. He first studied art at the
Stockholm Artists League School with Anders Zorn, Richard Bergh, and
an artist named Erlandsson, then later in Paris with Aman-Jean. In
1894 he moved to Kansas to teach at Bethany College. He remained at
Bethany throughout his life, becoming first professor (until 1945),
then professor emeritus until his death. He also found time to teach
in Denver, at the State Agricultural College in Logan, Utah during
the summers of 1928, and and as the WPA artist and teacher at
the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs from 1923-24. His
interest in mountain landscapes extended as far as the desert
Southwest, and he became a frequent visitor to Santa Fe and Taos as
the art colony was emerging there in the early 1900s. Throughout his
life, Sandzen influenced many student artists throughout the
Midwest, many of whom became artists and artist/teachers, as well.
While respected as an educator, Sandzen was equally revered for his
work as a painter, illustrator, engraver, and lithographer. His
renderings of the Rocky Mountains in block prints, lithographs, and
paintings "created a bold Post-Impressionist style," which has been
compared to Van Gogh or Cezanne. He is described as starting out as
a "tonal landscapist," evolving into a pointilist (ca. 1910), and by
1915, employing great slabs of paint in an "exciting and colorful
style." He won a prize for his work at an exhibit of Kansas City
artists in 1917, and again in 1922 at WCC. Sandzen was also awarded
the Knight of the Swedish Royal Order of the North Star. During his
tenure as head of the art department at Bethany College, Sandzen
wrote With Brush & Pencil. He died in his adopted home, Lindsborg,
Kansas, in 1954.
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