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1875 Verderslov Smoland, Sweden - 1952 New Orleans, Louisiana. Known for: Bayou landscape, work genre and portrait painting, teaching.
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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Keywords (43)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Miniature Art
- •Miniature, Small Scale Painting
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Harbor, Harbour View
- •Landscape
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Mississippi River Valley
- •New Orleans Before 1940
- •St. Augustine, Florida
- •Texas Before 1940
Art Association
- •New Orleans Art Association
- •Society of Independent Artists-
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Minneapolis School of Fine Art, College Art & Design, Student
- •Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Snowscene Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Swedish
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Edgar B Davis Competition, Texas
Exhibition of Art Association
- •New Orleans Art Association-
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
- •Salon d'Automne