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Sigurd Swane BIOGRAPHY
1879 Frederiksberg, Denmark - 1973 Grevinge, Denmark. Known for: Modernist landscape, figure and still life painting, writing.
Sigurd Swane was born the 16 June, 1879 at Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. During 1900-1902 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, and from 1904 to 1906 was under the sound and stimulating guidance of... Read full biography
Sigurd Swane was born the 16 June, 1879 at Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. During 1900-1902 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, and from 1904 to 1906 was under the sound and stimulating guidance of Kristian Zahrtmann (see AskART). He meanwhile, before going to Zahrtmann, made his debut at... Read full biography
Sigurd Swane was born the 16 June, 1879 at Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. During 1900-1902 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, and from 1904 to 1906 was under the sound and stimulating guidance of Kristian Zahrtmann (see AskART). He meanwhile, before going to Zahrtmann, made his debut at Charlottenborg, and in 1907, after completing his studies at home, spent considerable time in Paris. It was in Paris that he absorbed to the full the new gospel which at that period had barely become known in... Read full biography
Sigurd Swane was born the 16 June, 1879 at Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. During 1900-1902 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, and from 1904 to 1906 was under the sound and stimulating guidance of Kristian Zahrtmann (see AskART). He meanwhile, before going to Zahrtmann, made his debut at Charlottenborg, and in 1907, after completing his studies at home, spent considerable time in Paris. It was in Paris that he absorbed to the full the new gospel which at that period had barely become known in Copenhagen, and on his return naturally cast his lot with the Frie Udstilling* of which he is one of its strongest pillars. Swane's work is marked by a pronounced degree of coloristic vigor and beauty. He also draws with freedom and power, and his... Read full biography
Sigurd Swane was born the 16 June, 1879 at Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. During 1900-1902 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, and from 1904 to 1906 was under the sound and stimulating guidance of Kristian Zahrtmann (see AskART). He meanwhile, before going to Zahrtmann, made his debut at Charlottenborg, and in 1907, after completing his studies at home, spent considerable time in Paris. It was in Paris that he absorbed to the full the new gospel which at that period had barely become known in Copenhagen, and on his return naturally cast his lot with the Frie Udstilling* of which he is one of its strongest pillars. Swane's work is marked by a pronounced degree of coloristic vigor and beauty. He also draws with freedom and power, and his grasp of character is uncommonly sure. In that great struggle for self-expression along novel and independent lines, that fight for simpl... Read full biography
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Sigurd Swane was born the 16 June, 1879 at Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. During 1900-1902 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, and from 1904 to 1906 was under the sound and stimulating guidance of Kristian Zahrtmann (see AskART). He meanwhile, before going to Zahrtmann, made his debut at Charlottenborg, and in 1907, after completing his studies at home, spent considerable time in Paris.
It was in Paris that he absorbed to the full the new gospel which at that period had barely become known in Copenhagen, and on his return naturally cast his lot with the Frie Udstilling* of which he is one of its strongest pillars.
Swane's work is marked by a pronounced degree of coloristic vigor and beauty. He also draws with freedom and power, and his grasp of character is uncommonly sure. In that great struggle for self-expression along novel and independent lines, that fight for simplification of contour and of tone which is so completely changing the complexion of modem painting, Swane is already making his personality felt, and will doubtless prove a prominent factor in the forward
march of contemporary Danish art.
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Christian Brinton, the Catalogue for the 1912 -1913 EXHIBITION of CONTEMPORARY SCANDINAVIAN ART at New York, Buffalo, Toledo, Chicago and Boston
Submitted to askART by M.D. Silverbrooke
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Sigurd Swane (16 June 1879 - 9 April 1973) was a Danish painter and writer. He was born in Frederiksberg and studied in Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy of Art.
While in Paris in 1907, he was influenced by the work of the Fauves. On returning to Denmark, he painted a series of woodlands using greens, yellows and blues. His use of spots was soon replaced by more solid brushstrokes, with careful separation of colour, making him one of Denmark's foremost colourists.
His portraits are typified by wooded backgrounds as can be seen in the paintings of his brother Leo Swane (1908) and of Harald Giersing (1908).
He finally fulfilled his childhood dream of living in the country on a farm in Odsherred in the north-west of Zealand where he completed a series of light-filled landscape paintings. From 1947 he often painted in Portugal. He died, aged 93, in Grevinge.
His wife Christine Swane was also a painter, as was their son Lars Swane.
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"Sigurd Swane", Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigurd_Swane (Accessed 4/16/2013)