Yngvar Sonnichsen

Yngvar Sonnichsen (March 9, 1873 July 1938) was a Norwegian born, American artist and painter known especially for his portraits, landscapes and murals.

Background

Yngvar Sonnichsen was born in Christiania, Norway to S.P. and Inga Mathea Sonnichsen. He studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondhjem earning a civil engineering degree. He studied art at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry with Norwegian artists Oscar Wergeland and Eilif Peterssen . Later he attended the Académie Julian in Paris, studying with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.[1]

Career

In 1904, Sonnichsen immigrated to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada before moving to Seattle, Washington in 1908. In 1917, Sonnichsen and his brother architect Sønke Engelhart Sonnichsen, designed and decorated a Seattle lodge with original oil-on-canvas murals and painting. Now Raisbeck Performance Hall at Cornish College of the Arts, in 1975 the building was designated as a Seattle historic landmark. The murals are now located in the Leif Erikson Lodge of the Sons of Norway in Ballard, Washington. Today, his works are also on display in municipal galleries in Oslo, Arendal and Laurvik, Norway, Decorah, Iowa and Seattle, Washington.[2][3]

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