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.[1]

Background

Yngvar Sonnichsen was born in Christiania, (now Oslo, 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, from 1895 to 1899, he attended the Académie Julian in Paris, studying with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.[2]

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. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Honors
  • First Prize at the International Exposition in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada (1906)
  • Gold and silver medals at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle (1909)
  • Honorable mention at the Northwest Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Seattle (1920 and 1927)
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References
  1. Yngvar Sonnichsen Luther College Fine Arts Collection
  2. Yngvar Sonnichsen, Biography (AskART and Artists' Bluebook)
  3. Norway Hall. Sonke Englehart Sonnichsen, 1915 (HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History)
  4. Norwegian Artisans’ Effect on Seattle (Luci J. Baker Johnson)
  5. "Norway Hall as part of Cornish College". The Seattle Times. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  6. "Raisbeck Performance Hall". Cornish College of the Arts. Retrieved January 1, 2018.

Other sources
  • Who's Who In Washington State (Seattle: Arthur H. Allen, 1927)
  • Selnes, Johan. Yngvar Sonnichsen (Nordmanns-forbundet. translators Jim Skurdal, Kari Grønningsaeter and Øyvind Gulliksen, Vol. 7 237-239. July 1929)
  • Kreisman, Lawrence and Glenn Mason The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest (Portland, OR: Timber Press, Inc. 2007)
  • Leander, Kristine Norwegian Seattle, Images of America: Washington (San Francisco, CA: Arcadia Publishing. 2008)
  • Bjork, Kenneth O. Saga in Steel and Concrete - Norwegian Engineers in America (Northfield, MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association. 1947)
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