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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.

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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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19 Book References for Knute (Sven August) Heldner
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2000 Bragg, Jean; Dr. Susan Saward Knute Heldner and the Art Colony in Old New Orleans 72 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Reaves, William E Jr Texas Art and a Wildcatter's Dream 92 Yes
1996 Coen, Rena Neumann; William Gerdts, Foreward Minnesota Impressionists 95 Yes
1996 Delehanty, Randolph Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection 292 Yes
1994 Conforti, Michael (editor) Art and Life on the Upper Mississipi, 1890-1915
(Exhibition catalog)
333 Yes
1991 Pennington, Estill Curtis Downriver Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950 208 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Buechner, Howard MD Drysdale (1870-1934) Artist of Myth and Legend 117 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1982 University Gallery Minnesota The Divided Heart Scandinavian Immigrant Artists 1850-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
40 No
1969 Anglo-American Art Museum The Louisiana Landscape 1800-1969 48 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
215 No
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