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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Books & Publications (25)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Tangled Web: Swedish Immigrant Artists' Patronage Systems, 1880-1940
2004
Swanson, Mary Towley
0 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Boston Art Club Exhibition: 1873-1909 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
479 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Looking Back A Perspective on the 1913 Inaugural Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Marling, Karal Ann
55 pages (color)
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64
1980
Burke, Doreen Bolger
479 pages
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Catalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Klug, William L (Introductory Essay)
64 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1938-1939
1938
Editors
0 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One