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Knute (Sven August) Heldner

Knute (Sven August) Heldner (1886 - 1952) was active/lived in Minnesota, Louisiana / Sweden.  Knute Heldner is 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 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 interest in the physical aspects of work.

He first exhibited his art work around 1915, when he   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13932 characters.]  Artist bio

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