Knute Heldner, born in Vederslov Smoland, Sweden was a painter and woodcarver who spent the latter part of his professional career in New Orleans, Louisiana gaining national and international... Read full biography
Knute Heldner, born in Vederslov Smoland, Sweden was a painter and woodcarver who spent the latter part of his professional career in New Orleans, Louisiana gaining national and international recognition for his Louisiana landscapes. His early formal training was at Karlskrona Technical School and... Read full biography
Knute Heldner, born in Vederslov Smoland, Sweden was a painter and woodcarver who spent the latter part of his professional career in New Orleans, Louisiana gaining national and international recognition for his Louisiana landscapes. His early formal training was at Karlskrona Technical School and the National Royal Academy of Stockholm. Heldner immigrated to the United States about 1902, arriving first in Boston and moving later to the Great Lakes region. He held a variety of jobs such as... Read full biography
Knute Heldner, born in Vederslov Smoland, Sweden was a painter and woodcarver who spent the latter part of his professional career in New Orleans, Louisiana gaining national and international recognition for his Louisiana landscapes. His early formal training was at Karlskrona Technical School and the National Royal Academy of Stockholm. Heldner immigrated to the United States about 1902, arriving first in Boston and moving later to the Great Lakes region. He held a variety of jobs such as miner, cobbler and lumber camp cook in Minnesota and continued his art education at the Minneapolis School of Fine Art. His early art work focused on the manual labor of mining and lumbering in paintings titled Veterans of the Mines and The Lumberjacks.... Read full biography
Knute Heldner, born in Vederslov Smoland, Sweden was a painter and woodcarver who spent the latter part of his professional career in New Orleans, Louisiana gaining national and international recognition for his Louisiana landscapes. His early formal training was at Karlskrona Technical School and the National Royal Academy of Stockholm. Heldner immigrated to the United States about 1902, arriving first in Boston and moving later to the Great Lakes region. He held a variety of jobs such as miner, cobbler and lumber camp cook in Minnesota and continued his art education at the Minneapolis School of Fine Art. His early art work focused on the manual labor of mining and lumbering in paintings titled Veterans of the Mines and The Lumberjacks. His later work in Southern landscapes including The Cotton Pickers retained a subject in... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (19)
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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
Knute Heldner and the Art Colony in Old New Orleans
2000
Bragg, Jean; Dr. Susan Saward
72 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Texas Art and a Wildcatter's Dream
1998
Reaves, William E Jr
92 pages (color)
Minnesota Impressionists
1996
Coen, Rena Neumann; William Gerdts, Foreward
95 pages (color)
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
Art and Life on the Upper Mississipi, 1890-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Conforti, Michael (editor)
333 pages (color)
Downriver Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950
1991
Pennington, Estill Curtis
208 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Drysdale (1870-1934) Artist of Myth and Legend
1985
Buechner, Howard MD
117 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
The Divided Heart Scandinavian Immigrant Artists 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
University Gallery Minnesota
40 pages
The Louisiana Landscape 1800-1969
1969
Anglo-American Art Museum
48 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)