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August Reinhold Franzen BIOGRAPHY
1863 Drathem, East Gothland, Sweden - 1938 New York City. Known for: Impresssionist portrait and landscape painting.
August Franzen (1863 - 1938). Born in Drothem parish in the Swedish city of Norrkoping on the Baltic Sea, August Franzen became noted for his formal society portraiture, but was also successful as an... Read full biography
August Franzen (1863 - 1938). Born in Drothem parish in the Swedish city of Norrkoping on the Baltic Sea, August Franzen became noted for his formal society portraiture, but was also successful as an impressionist landscape painter. At the age of twelve, he began a three-year apprentice ship to... Read full biography
August Franzen (1863 - 1938). Born in Drothem parish in the Swedish city of Norrkoping on the Baltic Sea, August Franzen became noted for his formal society portraiture, but was also successful as an impressionist landscape painter. At the age of twelve, he began a three-year apprentice ship to Anders Gottman, a portrait and genre painter in Norrkoping. This studied was followed by time in Stockholm, where he studied with Carl Julius Olsen and with Carl Larsen, a popular genre painter whom he... Read full biography
August Franzen (1863 - 1938). Born in Drothem parish in the Swedish city of Norrkoping on the Baltic Sea, August Franzen became noted for his formal society portraiture, but was also successful as an impressionist landscape painter. At the age of twelve, he began a three-year apprentice ship to Anders Gottman, a portrait and genre painter in Norrkoping. This studied was followed by time in Stockholm, where he studied with Carl Julius Olsen and with Carl Larsen, a popular genre painter whom he later credited as being highly influential on his painting career. In 1881, Franzen moved to Paris and enrolled in the Academy Julian* and studied with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. In 1882, he made his first visit to the United... Read full biography
August Franzen (1863 - 1938). Born in Drothem parish in the Swedish city of Norrkoping on the Baltic Sea, August Franzen became noted for his formal society portraiture, but was also successful as an impressionist landscape painter. At the age of twelve, he began a three-year apprentice ship to Anders Gottman, a portrait and genre painter in Norrkoping. This studied was followed by time in Stockholm, where he studied with Carl Julius Olsen and with Carl Larsen, a popular genre painter whom he later credited as being highly influential on his painting career. In 1881, Franzen moved to Paris and enrolled in the Academy Julian* and studied with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. In 1882, he made his first visit to the United States where an older brother was living and where he had extended travel across the country. On a... Read full biography
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August Franzen (1863 - 1938)
Born in Drothem parish in the Swedish city of Norrkoping on the Baltic Sea, August Franzen became noted for his formal society portraiture, but was also successful as an impressionist landscape painter. At the age of twelve, he began a three-year apprentice ship to Anders Gottman, a portrait and genre painter in Norrkoping. This studied was followed by time in Stockholm, where he studied with Carl Julius Olsen and with Carl Larsen, a popular genre painter whom he later credited as being highly influential on his painting career.
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