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August Reinhold Franzen

August Reinhold Franzen (1863 - 1938) was active/lived in New York, Maine / Sweden.  August Franzen is known for Impresssionist portrait and landscape painting.

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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 return, he worked in the Chicago area from 1883 to 1885 on a panorama, Battle of Gettysburg,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3423 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about August Reinhold Franzen

   August Reinhold Franzen  Born:  1863 - Drathem, East Gothland, Sweden
Died:   1938 - New York City
Known for:  Impresssionist portrait and landscape painting

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.&n  ...  Displaying 750 of 3423 characters.

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